About 60 people were standing around last night at Slog Happy in the Twilight Exit on 22nd Avenue and East Madison Street, under blue and pink bulbs, sucking down drinks and exchanging some seriously weird gifts. (Thanks for the bells on a string, Scary Tyler Moore. And, Rhett Oracle, that’s some card...)

But at the same time, exactly 23 people were standing around two blocks north at the Miller Park Community Center, under fluorescent lights, sucking back cups of coffee and snacking on eggplant and mozzarella sandwiches. They were there to hear developer Jim Mueller’s plans for two six-story apartment buildings to be constructed on 22nd and Madison. One of those buildings requires demolishing the Twilight Exit.

“Hopefully everyone has had some free food, because we’re going to start in a minute,” said Mueller. Earlier this year, he purchased the old Deano’s site on the north side of Madison—formerly home to Seattle’s most terrifying open-air drug market—and announced plans for the Twilight site. The Deano’s block already had a building permit in place; however, those plans looked like a Craftsman compound of cheap townhouses. “The design was clearly dated when we bought it,” he said. (A model of the previous building form is over here.) Mueller has revamped the design, which will influence both buildings, to look like this:

After about 20 minutes, I grabbed a sandwich and ducked out for another whiskey and Coke. It was probably my last drink at Twilight Exit—at least in that location. Stephan Mollmann, owner of the Twilight Exit, says the bar will remain open through the end of this month but he is unsure when it will open in a new location near 25th and Cherry.