The deadline for moving residents out of the Northlake Tiny House Village (3814 Ave NE) has slid forward three weeks, from December 31st to December 9th. (For background on the closure, see Northlake Tiny House Village To Close.)

This past week, LIHI posted the following notice on the gates:

The Seattle Human Services Department has notified us that the Northlake Village contract will not be renewed for 2020. To allow time to transition this City of Seattle-owned property back to City Light by December 31, 2019, all the tiny houses and village grounds need to be vacated by December 9, …

Just shy of its sixth Birthday, The Octopus Bar (2109 N 45th St) will lock up for the last time at the little Jules Verne-themed building they carved out of the old Wallingford Pizza House building on 45th Street. Fortunately, while they’re losing their lease on the building, they’re planning to take their theme just down the block to the old Iron Bull building on the corner of 45th and Bagley.

This came as a surprise to me. Last I spoke with co-owner Liza Danger, the plan was to continue to operate The Octopus in its present location, and to …

After a turbulent and acrimonious two years on the Seattle City Light-owned lot off NE Northlake Way, just north of Ivar’s, the Northlake Tiny House Village will be emptied and de-commissioned as of December 31.

In a letter addressed to Sharon Lee, the executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI, the city-recognized managers of the village), and delivered to the village and the Northlake Community Advisory Council (on which I serve), Adrienne Easter, Manager of Homeless Investments for the City of Seattle Human Services Department (HSD), wrote that the “The City of Seattle will not be renewing the …

If you want to get a jump on the trick or treating this Thursday, if you want to start fattening your pumpkin before the de facto ringing of the starting bell for trick or treating at about 5:30 pm, you could head on over to the Wallingford Center, where the businesses will be welcoming the young costumed ones:

Grab your little goblins and ghouls and head to Wallingford Center for a fun-filled evening of trick-or-treating. Visit all 12 of the center businesses for a trick or treat. Take your photo with one of our custom back drops! October 31st from …

Thursday is Halloween, and in most parts of Wallingford, that means hoards of trick-or-treaters sweeping up and down your steps to collect their goodies. Time to stock up!

If you haven’t already bought your goodies, I’d like to delicately suggest this article on Cocoa’s child laborers to you. If you can’t make it past the Washington Post’s paywall, I’ll summarize: despite pledges made almost two decades ago, Mars, Nestlé and Hershey still buy the cocoa for their chocolate from farms that use child labor.

One reason is that nearly 20 years after pledging to eradicate child labor, chocolate companies still …

I know I’m late to the party, but Damsel and Hopper, the bakery that opened in the heart of Wallingford two years ago September has closed as of last week.

I stopped in a couple days before the closing and chatted with the owner, Rob Salvino, and offered to write a post before it closed, so people could come in and get their last loaf, but he gently waved me off, gesturing to the almost empty shelves and the steady stream of people already coming through to clean him out. “Please don’t, we already don’t have enough.”

I asked him …

The gears of change will grind up another couple of single family homes and churn out another townhouse / rowhouse combination along 50th. If you would like to chat with someone in person about the project, there are drop-in hours today, Monday September 30th from 5:00 – 6:00 pm (sorry for the short notice!) onsite at 1925 N 50th St, just across from Meridian Park.

According the project’s description,

Blackwood Builders Group and JW Architects are collaborating to design the redevelopment of 1925 N 50^th Street. When it’s complete, the new homes will be 3 stories tall and will …