Eyes on Kenmore

Still Wasting Electricity at the “Green” City Hall

Posted by the Kenmore Crow | Filed under Photo/Video | 4 Comments

Lest you believe that the photos I posted here last week do not represent the regular goings-on at our nearly-open new City Hall, I present a brand new set of photos, taken last night (Tuesday) at 11:00 PM.

Zero cars in the parking lot, zero sign of anyone anywhere inside the building. Roughly 90% of the interior and exterior lights (including in the underground parking garage) were turned on.

Here’s a close-up of the front again:

And another one of the room that I thought was going to be a meeting room. Now that it’s full of desks, I’m thinking it’s probably just some sort of mass office? Either way, I don’t see why they need to leave all the lights on throughout the night.

Here’s the back door…

…and what’s this just across the driveway, in basically the only dark spot on the lot?

According to the sign on the right there, that would be the generator and fuel tank—totally unlocked and wide open to whoever wants to stroll on by. That seems safe.

I wonder how much electricity our new green city hall will have pointlessly wasted before it is even open for business?

Tags: city council, city hall, photo

Read more | Comments (4) | May 5th, 2010

Check out Kenmore’s New GREEN City Hall

Posted by the Kenmore Crow | Filed under Photo/Video | 6 Comments

The photos below were taken at 9:00 PM Sunday night. As far as this crow could tell the building was completely unoccupied.

That’s nearly every exterior and interior light turned on. For nobody.

All the inside lights on in the entry room. Those things at the top that look like ceiling tiles that are falling off are the “art.”

All the lights on in the rear first floor meeting room, too. No signs of anyone at all inside the building.

Don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing that our fancy new City Hall is so green? I know I do.

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Read more | Comments (6) | April 25th, 2010

Ch-ch-ch-Changes Around Kenmore

Posted by the Kenmore Crow | Filed under Photo/Video | 2 Comments

All kinds of changes happening around Kenmore in the past week or so…

The new unnecessary traffic signals at both ends of NE 181st St behind Safeway have been activated.

Grocery Outlet has moved, opening in their new location in Kenmore Square yesterday.

The new store looks great, and has much better visibility than their old location in Kenmore Village. They were smart to jump on this space as soon as it became available, considering the public statements from Urban Partners, the supposed eventual developer of Kenmore Village, that they basically aren’t welcome to stay in the fancy-schmancy new upscale downtown when it finally gets built (whenever that will be).

Speaking of Kenmore Village, the grand future downtown of Kenmore is looking more and more like a ghost town with each passing month. Here’s an update of our map.