One owner who spoke with CHS said the decision for the abrupt zig zag came with the realization 19th Ave E just wasn’t the right neighborhood for Money Frog’s pan-Asian restaurant and bar aspirations even with a push of weekend brunch to try to entice more neighbors. The location has been home to the Remedium Grill restaurant which had been hosting this Alice in Wonderland-themed “immersive cocktail experience” over the winter to help make ends meet through the ongoing pandemic challenges.
Ownership hasn’t officially announced the new location while the deal is being finalized but license applications show Money Frog is on the move to the corner of 15th and Pine. Now, after about seven weeks of business in the space longtime favorite Vios called home for 17 years, it has shut down and is preparing for a move closer to the core of Capitol Hill. Only weeks after its grand opening on the relatively sleepy 19th Ave E, new Capitol Hill restaurant Money Frog was looking for a new pad. Sometimes new living arrangements just don’t work out. KP’s Soft Shell Crab Burger (Image: Money Frog) The group headed by homelessness advocacy group Real Change is asking for supporters to add their signatures to help make the total. The group says its grassroots approach, the spring’s bad weather, and a limited budget have put its signature gathering effort at around 15,000 signees - short of its goal of gathering the approximately 27,000 signatures it needs by June 20th. “However, our approach is conscientious of the spirit and intent of events and gatherings, such as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day and we opted to not interrupt those sacred moments of healing out of respect, and instead we showed up in solidarity.”
“It is a common practice for signature gatherers to be highly visible in public spaces because of the great opportunities those provide,” an announcement from the House Our Neighbors organizer reads. Organizers trying to get the House Our Neighbors initiative to create a new public developer “to build, acquire, own, and manage social housing” on Seattle’s November ballot say their signature gathering effort is falling short of goals and are asking for support to help wrap the process up before the end of June. The new revelations surrounding text messages between the former police chief and her assistant chief in the days leading up to the June 2020 formation of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone were reported by the Emerald’s Carolyn Bick last week:Īccording to texts between Best and Assistant Police Chief Lesley Cordner, it appears that Best was in contact with former Mayor Jenny Durkan about the Seattle Police Department (SPD) removing items from the East Precinct and that she was aware, on the morning of June 8, 2020, of a plan to remove firearms, ammunition, and evidence from the building by 5 p.m.
The revelations could further jeopardize the city’s chances of defending itself in an ongoing federal lawsuit accusing City Hall of “deliberate indifference” in allowing the CHOP occupied protest area to form and cutting off the area from city services for weeks in the summer of 2020 amid concerns about dangerous conditions around the camp and protest.
Text messages reveal both former Chief Carmen Best and Mayor Jenny Durkan and her office may have been more involved in the decision to abandon Capitol Hill’s East Precinct than either has previously disclosed, according to new reporting from the South Seattle Emerald. The South Seattle Emerald has posted a new report based on text log transcripts from messages between former SPD Chief Carmen Best and Assistant Police Chief Lesley Cordner from June 2020