Jet City Maven wins state honors

For the second year in a row, the Jet City Maven, a North Seattle community newspaper that turned two in March, has walked away with several statewide honors for journalistic excellence from the Washington Press Association.

The WPA announced this year's winners of its Communicator of Excellence awards at its annual banquet, which was held April 17 at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

Jet City Maven co-publisher Susan Park received a second-place award for Page Layout by a Non-Daily Newspaper, and an honorable mention award for Photo Essay by a Non-Daily Newspaper. She also shared an honorable mention award with her husband and co-publisher, Clayton Park, for Editing of a Non-Daily Newspaper.

Jet City Maven columnist Corey Holmes also received an honorable mention award in the Personal Column, General Interest, category.

Fremont landmark on move again?

A historic Fremont building that currently houses two popular watering holes, the Red Door Ale House and the Dubliner, as well as the Noodle House restaurant, is slated to either be torn down or moved to a new location to make way for a new mixed-use project.

Landowner Suzie Burke hopes to be able to move the 100-plus year old wooden building to a vacant lot a block away, on the northwest corner of Evanston and North 34th, which is currently being used as a parking lot.

Burke recently agreed to lease the Red Door Ale House building's current site, the northwest corner of Fremont Avenue and North 34th, to Fremont Housing Group LLC, an affiliate of SP Investments Inc., a Seattle-based real estate development company that specializes in multi-family housing.

The Fremont Housing Group, which has signed a longterm lease, plans to build a multi-story building that would have up to 140 apartments constructed above street-level retail shops and two-plus floors of underground parking, with 90 parking slots for retail and public use. Construction is slated to begin in 18 months, with full occupancy in around 36 months.

The Red Door Ale House building housed the legendary Fremont Tavern for several decades until its demise in the mid-'80s. Legend has it that the building was actually moved twice before winding up at its current resting place.