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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

News Things to Do Tonight

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:47 PM

This post kicks off a new series that features non-arts events around town that may be of interest to you, our treasured readers. We're posting this late-ish in the day—because it's a new series, and because all of us (except the interns) have been drinking since we woke up at noon. —Eds

Posted by news intern Lara Phillips

Tonight, a city-appointed review board will look at designs to replace a venerable gay bar with a new building—if the economy ever recovers. Developers will unveil plans to demolish C.C. Attle's and build a six story, 49,000 square foot office and retail building. The new building would house the Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction and would have "living building" and LEED Platinum certifications. Additionally, the developers hope to create public park space adjacent to the building that would complement the nearby McGilvra Place Park. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Seattle University (824 12th Ave) Alumni Relations and Admissions Building.

The doomed, drinky bear cave looks like this:

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Here's one of several preliminary designs for the new building:

Looking north on 15th Ave (from Pike towards Madison)

Looking north on 15th Ave (from Pike towards Madison)

See the design proposal in this .pdf.

At 6:00 p.m., the Seattle School Board meeting might be livelier than usual. A group calling itself the "School Defenders" claim that they'll be serving members of the School board with a lawsuit during the meeting. The School board meets at John Stanford Center (2445 3rd Ave South) in the SODO area.

Speaking of school, Seattle Free School holds a class tonight called Facilitating a Seattle Free School Class at the West Seattle Library (2306 42nd Ave. SW) from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. If you've always wanted to teach people how to keep chickens in the city or how to make borscht, this might be for you.

Want more stuff going on tonight? Look HERE.

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With Slats gone, the whole hill is imploding. Oh well, we had a good run.

Posted by paulus on March 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM

If you wanted to open a gay bar with an existing clientele and demand, here's your chance.

Posted by Baconcat on March 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM

Just take the light rail to Fremont and come have a drink with us!

(oh, wait, they haven't done that part yet ... never mind)

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM

That is not an improvement.

Posted by very bad homo on March 17, 2010 at 4:05 PM

I'll never forget the time my dad took me to lunch there, back when it was called something else (Madison something? Cadillac Grill?). Nice little place he used to eat at back when he first moved to Seattle in 1954. It took him a while to figure out why we were the only people in there without booshy moustaches and tight, tight Levis. We ate our sandwiches in beet red silence.

Posted by Fnarf

on March 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM

How about a 6-story, 49,000 square foot gay bar?

Posted by Timmytee on March 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM

i once was called out of the audience to lift a cabaret singer onto a piano there, and, since i have little girl arms, and she was not svelte, i failed. i'm still mortified.

anyway, Miller Hull. approved.

Posted by Max Solomon on March 17, 2010 at 4:27 PM

Fnarf, that is hilarious.

Posted by Dominic Holden on March 17, 2010 at 4:33 PM

@5: What-- you've never been to a mustache party?

Posted by Baconcat on March 17, 2010 at 4:45 PM

@9, not that I can recall, but I'm comfortable around the gays. My father, on the other hand...I'm absolutely certain he expected Carmen Miranda and Liberace to come out of the kitchen, surrounded by a hundred half-naked leather boys dancing the can-can and waving dildos in his face. You know, recruiting.

Posted by Fnarf

on March 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM

Hey, whatever happened to the planned AIDS memorial park in that green triangle in front of CC's?

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on March 17, 2010 at 5:11 PM

Don't "living buildings" have to be architecturally respectable? Perhaps I need to see more renderings. This looks like another piece of Rem Koolhaas-style modernism to me.

Posted by doesurmindglow on March 17, 2010 at 5:26 PM

i wish it was another piece of koolhaas-style modernism. this is poor, even for miller|hull. is it just me, or has their work gotten significantly watered down over the last decade?

how about a scheme 4, which unlike the others, won't look like a blighted piece of shit as soon as it's finished?

Posted by holz on March 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM

Woot! We finally got into the Stranger and we didn't even have to kill anyone! Thanks for posting info about Seattle Free School and once everyone sobers up come join us to learn something or teach something. It's fun. We swear.

Posted by Eris on March 17, 2010 at 9:45 PM

If Capitol Hill's gay knew what was good for it they would ban together and demand a building that is a giant replica of that awesome Paul Bunyan that isn't CC's.

Posted by I'm 85 Years Old on March 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM