Pioneer Square in the News
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Pioneer Square in the News

Sorry for the delay in posting this news roundup — family in town.

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Delicatus: classic and inventive sandwiches (Seattle Times)
Owners Derek Shankland and Mike Klotz opened this Pioneer Square joint almost two years ago, with the goal of bringing a traditional deli to the city. But they seem to have more fun putting their spins on the classics. This fall, the guys will also start a monthly guest-chef dinner, with food-and-wine pairings.

First Call: Buried Treasure (Seattle Weekly)
The Double Header is buried treasure. Owned by the same family since 1934 (right after Prohibition ended!), its history lies in a very different Pioneer Square, one which served as the fulcrum of Seattle’s gay scene. It’s been cited as the oldest continually run gay bar in the U.S., although its basement, now a club called Volume, bears the bulk of that history.

Seattle’s big North Lot project stalls again (PSBJ)
The $180 million development of apartments and shops just north of CenturyLink Field is idling while the construction lender, Pacific Life Insurance Co., reviews a complex series of agreements stretching all the way back to the late 1990s.

Mario Batali comes to Seattle for SAM (PSBJ)
It’s a gala Friday including dinner at TASTE, the museum’s restaurant, with Batali, the New York City-based celebrity chef, as guest of honor. His mother, Marilyn Batali, is a docent at SAM. His father, Armando Batali, is owner of Salumi Artisan Cured Meats in the Pioneer Square neighborhood.

“Surviving the Streets”, Real Change Thanksgiving gear giveaway (West Seattle Herald)
Real Change, in association with Patti Dunn and pickyourzip.com, will play host to the 3rd annual “Surviving the Streets” gear giveaway this Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. The giveaway distributes donated cold-weather items such as sleeping bags and jackets to homeless and low-income adults in Seattle. The giveaway will be held at the Real Change office, 96 S. Main St., in Pioneer Square. The giveaway runs from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., noon.

Smith Tower owner in default on big loan (Seattle Times)
The owner of downtown Seattle’s well-known and well-loved — but mostly empty — Smith Tower has defaulted on the loan it took out when it bought the landmark in 2006.

Capitol Hill steps in to host start of Seattle comedy competition booted by Sounders (Capitol Hill Seattle)
The 32nd Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition, with 32 stand-up comedians from across the United States and Canada, is ready to begin its month long effort to crown a new stand-up comedy champion. This month will see 23 shows in Western Washington–from Bellingham to Longview, from Auburn to Port Townsend–but the first show of the competition was to be held at the Comedy Underground in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. That was…until the Seattle Sounders scheduled a playoff match for that same night.

Sandwich Fight! (City Arts Online)
Pioneer Square beats Fremont with: Tats, Salumi and Delicatus.

Bear Stories Matter (Karass Creative)
Funny video of a bear wandering through Pioneer Square.

The Haunted Bars of Seattle (Stranger)
A pleasant Irish joint in Pioneer Square, the Owl ‘n’ Thistle is filled with bricks and brass and swirling lattices and rows of elegant books. It rests in a building that’s been around longer than anyone can remember, and it is haunted as all hell.

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