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Watershed Community Development and Equinox Studios will be hosting a farewell "house party" this Friday, in commemoration of the residences, creative spaces and other structures that will be demolished to make way for planned redevelopment on 4th Ave S. Event details: Date : Friday, April 11 Time : 5pm - 9pm Location : Lucile St & 5th Ave S Come and experience immersive art, live music, food and learn about the upcoming projects to add housing on 4th Ave S. The event is free and open to the public!

Friends of Georgetown History and Port of Seattle present a special earth day event at Jules Mae’s Saloon. Program starts at 6:00 pm. 21 and up. Jules Mae’s is at 5919 Airport Way S.

The Duwamish Tribe is hosting a Spring Art Market next weekend! Details below: Date : Saturday, 4/26 & Sunday, 4/27 Time : 10am - 5pm Location : Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center (4705 W Marginal Way SW) Interested in volunteering? Volunteers are needed to help run the event! Sign up here .

by Chris Chaney You know who's definitely going to have an abundance of eggs this year? The annual Georgetown Kids Easter Egg Hunt at Hat and Boots Park! Come join us 12 p.m. Easter Sunday April 20 at OxBow Park (Hat and Boots) to search for over 1,000 easter eggs filled with fun prizes and candy! We'll have two separate hunts: one for kids 5 and under, and one for kids over 5! We'll also have piñatas as well for the kids to whale on! And coffee and donuts for the adults (you know, to keep up with the kids after loading them up with sugar). As in past years, this is primarily a volunteer-driven event with some help from the Georgetown Community Council. If you'd like to help out, you can make financial donations via Venmo @CJChaney or join us at noon on Saturday April 12 at the Old Georgetown City Hall to help stuff the eggs. Contact cj@cjchaney.com if you've got any questions or need more information. We had a great turn out last year with folks from all over the community. Please spread the word! Hoping for even more this year!

by Laura Wright The Georgetown Super 8 (GS8) Film Festival is dedicated to the creation and sharing of  amateur films looking to foster an inclusive dialogue, ensuring a community of voices can define and document the story of our Duwamish Valley. Registration for the 2025 festival is open and we are looking to you, our Georgetown neighbors (including those that work in our community) to register to make a film! No film making experience is necessary (Yes, really! Newbies Welcome!) and we will loan you a camera to make your film. Film makers receive training on how to shoot super 8 film during a Crash Course, and will receive additional support during the filmmaking process to help you complete your film. Visit  www.georgetownsuper8.com  to learn more about the film maker resources, participation rules, and need-based scholarships for Duwamish Valley residents. Have questions?  Email us at  GS8filmfestival@gmail.com   or register and attend a Crash Course  April 29th or May 31st (details on event website).

Following the 3/24 GCC meeting, SDOT shared a slide deck with updates on the various projects impacting the neighborhood, including the construction on Airport Way S and Ellis Ave S.

Check the March GCC event page for details!

Here are events in the 'hood through April Send your neighborhood events to gazette@georgetownneighborhood.com Sat March 22, 11 am-5 pm: Georgetown Bites & Sites! Tour Georgetown’s bars and restaurants, and this year’s event is expanding to feature retailers and artists! Visit https://georgetownseattle.org/gt-bites-sites/  for more information. Mon March 24, 7 pm: Georgetown Community Council meeting, Old City Hall, 6235 Airport Way S Thurs March 27, 10 am-3 pm:  Friends of the Seattle Public Library Used Book Shop, 5608 6th Ave. S Every Thursday and second Saturday of the month. Tues April 8, 6 pm: Georgetown Business Association monthly meeting. Location TBA. Sat April 12, noon-9 pm : Georgetown Art Attack! Visit neighborhood art galleries and studios the second Saturday of every month. For details, click here . Sat April 19, 10 am-2 pm: Duwamish Alive! Celebrating Earth Month in the Duwamish. Click here for more information. 9:30 am- 2 pm: Puget Soundkeeper Kayak and Walking Cleanups. For details and to register, click here . Sun April 20, 11 am: Georgetown Easter Egg Hunt in Oxbow Park. Click this blog post for more information. Mon April 21, 7 pm: Georgetown Community Council meeting, Old City Hall, 6235 Airport Way S Send your neighborhood events to gazette@georgetownneighborhood.com .

Two years after fire, I Luv Teriyaki hopes to open again this spring Owner Don Lo, daughter Ruby, and his wife, Eva Lo, stand outside the new I Luv Teriyaki on 4th Avenue South in Georgetown. He hopes to reopen the restaurant this spring after fire destroyed the old one. By Steve Lannen In the early hours of March 3, 2023, Dong “Don” Lo’s phone rang. The voice said his Georgetown restaurant was on fire. He didn’t believe it. It must be a bad joke, he thought as he drove down from Lynnwood. When he arrived at I Luv Teriyaki, 6500 4th Ave S, reality hit him like a sledgehammer. A fire started in the kitchen and destroyed the building. Charred beams stood where the bright red fiberglass roof was only hours before. Investigators ruled the fire’s cause accidental. Now, more than two years later, Lo hopes to reopen by the end of April pending approval of permits. He is eager to welcome back Georgetown residents and workers who became regulars despite another teriyaki shop across the street and another around the corner. “I just want people to like it,” he said. Immediately after the fire, Lo and wife, Eva Lo, thought they could clean up, fix the roof and reopen a few months later. Soon, it became clear the damage was too severe to quickly reopen. In the ensuing months, thieves ripped copper pipes out of the walls and “even the sink!” he said. Vandals graffitied the walls inside and out. Someone illegally dumped a large amount of trash on the site. Before issuing a demolition permit in December 2023, the city fined them $19,000, Eva Lo said. It has been a challenging, depressing two years, yet walking away wasn’t an option. “We own it. We have a mortgage. We don’t have a choice,” Lo said. So instead of serving food, he plunged into contractor schedules, building permits and soil studies. He is considering art and color schemes for the new place and when to hire staff. “We have learned a lot,” Lo said. “So next time, maybe it would be easier. … but I don’t want a next time!” On the bright side, there has been more time for family. A second daughter arrived in 2024 and Lo attends his 6-year-old’s school events. He also visited the Cascades Mountains. That never happened when the restaurant was open. After arriving from Seoul, South Korea, in 2005, Lo managed a sushi and teriyaki restaurant in the University District. Depending on student customers, he tired of the academic breaks that always slowed business to a trickle. When he learned about the teriyaki shop in Georgetown close to major roads with year-round customers, he bought it in 2018. The restaurant was first a Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 1970s and then a teriyaki restaurant for decades. Despite his Korean origin, Lo has no interest in serving Korean food. The preparation and seasoning for Korean food is very different from teriyaki. “It’s a lot more work … and a lot of side dishes,” he said.   When I Luv Teriyaki opens again, Lo will begin with a smaller menu featuring the popular classics, such as spicy teriyaki chicken and katsu. He plans to slowly introduce more dishes. Sushi is a future possibility. But there is an unexpected one he is most excited to offer: pasta with red and white sauces. “If a family comes in with a kid, they might not like teriyaki beef, but they will like pasta. My (6-year-old) daughter, all the time she eats pasta,” Lo said.

New recycling company wants to be good neighbor, but residents recall 2015 "dust bowl" MCS Recycling plans to open soon at 7201 E Marginal Way S in Georgetown. A previous construction recycling business caused problems for nearby residents. (Photo by Steve Lannen) Sacha Davis does not have fond memories of 2015. That summer was a constant battle against dust floating over East Marginal Way from a construction debris recycling business just across the road and railroad tracks. Along with offensive odors, the white dust particles infiltrated her Flora Avenue house, landed on vehicles and became a major headache for residents near Marginal Way.  The dust even triggered her child’s asthma prompting a hospital stay. “There were times I walked out of my house and it would be hurting my throat,” Davis recalled. Another Flora Avenue resident, Julie Johnson, noticed a change in air quality and increased traffic. “We wanted to be outside and to not feel like we were paying a price for that in the few nice months we have,” she said. A Facebook groupꟷthe Flora Dust Bowlꟷwas created. Others spoken to for this article said noise was also an issue. The business, CDL Recycle/Drywall Recycling Services, closed in 2016 after a year of neighborhood complaints and flouted permit violations. It shut down after a vehicle accident damaged the main building. Now, a new company is looking to begin operations at the same site located at 7201 E Marginal Way S.   Managed Construction Site Recycling (MCS) plans to open by the end of the month. In an interview with the Georgetown Gazette , MCS executives said they want to minimize impact on residents. They secured new permits from King County agencies and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and are awaiting approval from the Washington Department of Ecology. They plan to only accept “clean” leftover materials such as drywall, cement, wood and metal from new construction sites and not demolition projects. Netting and misting will control the dust. They will also tell trucks to stay on the main roads and not cut through neighborhood streets and end operations by 10 p.m. daily in compliance with a city noise ordinance . “We are fully committed to being great neighbors,” CEO Mike Sheldon said adding that he understood the company would be held to a higher standard given what occurred before.  “We don’t have people’s trust yet. We have to earn it.” Sheldon was an employee at the site in 2015 and agrees it was a bad summer. The closure of another recycling facility in Auburn pushed more trucks to the site, he said. “It suddenly went from 200 trucks a day to 600 trucks a day and it just got overwhelmed. It was a very stressful summer,” he said. An improperly attached net allowed dust to escape on windy days. DTG Recycle took over operations after the 2016 closure and sold the site in 2024 to MCS. Sheldon worked for DTG until departing two years ago. He said there were several years without incidents or failed inspections. Sheldon and other MCS executives attended February’s Georgetown Community Council meeting and plan to attend Tuesday’s Georgetown Business Association meeting to answer questions. That meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Art Zowie, 5021 Colorado Ave. S. It is positive that MCS is reaching out to the community, but Davis worries what happens if and when the desire to be a good neighbor conflicts with the need to be profitable. Will regulating agencies really have Georgetown residents’ backs if need be or are we “going to depend on the support and moral compasses of the businesses?” she wondered. Georgetown residents live very near industrial companies along with an airport and interstate. A 2013 study found life expectancy in the Duwamish Valley is eight years less than the Seattle average due to air pollution and nearby contaminated waste sites. What happens if the dust returns to Flora Avenue? “Then we’ll do what we always do. Stand up and demand some decency and safety for anyone living here,” Davis said.

In June, Seattle will host six FIFA Club World Cup 2025 games at Lumen Field, just up the street. Get ready neighbors! On Jan. 27 the Seattle mayor’s office announced small business and community support initiatives focused on the Chinatown-International District (CID), SODO and Pioneer Square neighborhoods with “goals of increasing exposure and opportunity throughout the tournament, and building a positive legacy of economic opportunity long after the final whistle.” But with our proximity to the stadium, Georgetown businesses could benefit from the influx of visitors as well. The opportunity to showcase our unique neighborhood could give visitors a taste of old Seattle and what’s possible when a community celebrates diversity and mutual support. The event might also impact our daily lives. Traffic increases, game attendees seeking nearby parking and a possible push to remove encampments of unhoused residents from the areas nearest the stadium leading up to the World Cup games could have ramifications for Georgetown. So, on Feb. 24, members of the Georgetown Business Association (GBA), Georgetown Community Council (GCC), and the Georgetown Gazette met along with community members to discuss how our neighborhood can be involved and what the impacts and opportunities might be. Several ideas on these topics were discussed at the meeting: Businesses might benefit from staying open later on game days, when soccer fans are out celebrating. We might host watch parties, possibly with a large screen on one of our piers. The city may have funds available for some neighborhood clean-up. It might be possible to work with Metro and the companies that rent bikes and scooters to provide more service in Georgetown during the tournament. Traffic routing assistance from Seattle Police might be prudent. The playfield could be used to host celebration matches among local soccer teams. It might be an opportunity to shed light on and advocate for more long-term positive solutions to some of the issues we face. We should ask for an ethical plan if the city intends on relocation of unhoused people in Georgetown. At the end of the meeting, a subcommittee formed to follow up on these issues and more. If you’d like to be a part of these discussions, reach out to directors@georgetownneighborhood.org to be connected with committee organizers. FIFA World Cup 2025 Seattle match dates Sun, June 15, 7 pm: Botafogo vs. Seattle Tues, June 17, 12 pm: CA River Plate vs. Urawa Red Diamonds Thurs, June 19, 3 pm: Atlético de Madrid vs. Seattle Sat, June 21, 12 pm: FC Internazionale Milano vs. Urawa Red Diamonds Mon, June 23, 12 pm: Seattle vs. Paris St. Germain Weds, June 25 6 pm: FC Internazionale Milano vs. CA River Plate

Georgetown Bites is back on Saturday, March 22, from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m! Tour Georgetown’s bars and restaurants, and this year’s event is expanding to feature retailers and artists! Check out the event page on the GBA website for more information.