I love to travel, but sometimes, I really love being home. Especially because home is Capitol Hill, a corner of Seattle located between downtown and the water (don’t ask me which body of water–that’s too much detail to keep track of).
It’s hipster heaven. The local hot-dog joint, Po Dog (who you can follow on Twitter, of course), took a crappy old garage, filled it with hot dogs and novelty wallpaper (including this giant closeup of a pug), and made a dead space awesome. (At the bottom of this post, you can see their gun wallpaper on the opposite wall.)
Have you ever heard of a hot dog place with designer wallpaper?
Both because of that and despite that, I heart Capitol Hill’s hot dog joint, just as I love the fact that they’ll make a Texas BBQ special with a veggie Field Roast dog. For real.
Even though Seattle is gloomy, rainy, blah blah blah, there are only a couple of other places in the world I’d like to live. And by and large, those places are gloomy and rainy too. But at least here we have great restaurants (yes, beyond just hot dogs), great parks, and great shops, all perpetually changing, giving it a novelty rating of A+.
According to this article in the local paper–admittedly not exactly hard-hitting journalism–it’s an example of “density done right.”
“When Walgreens was planning to build a new, single-level store, community activists went up in arms.
“They showed up to the meeting and said, ‘Are you out of your minds?’ ” Hunter recalls.
Walgreens listened. The result is Broadway Crossing, a mixed-use complex with the pharmacy at street level and affordable housing on the upper floors, “so the people who work in the Walgreens store could actually live in the building,” Hunter says.
New laws or not, residents are still piling into neighborhood planning meetings to make their voices heard, Hunter says.
“The great thing is, this is a neighborhood that gets it.”"
I couldn’t agree more. Hooray for those who take the time to make great urban density happen. And to hot dog places that invest in novelty wallpaper.
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