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A peek at Liberty Bank Key Bank issues $300,000 grant to RISE Together By Danielle Chastaine
Madison Park Times contributing writer Under the shadow of looming gentrification, rapid landscape changes and a lack of affordable housing, some communities have chosen to lift themselves up instead of waiting for others to aid them. This is the case for a coalition of grassroot and nonprofit organizations, Capitol Hill Housing, Africatown Community Land Trust, Byrd Barr Place and Black Community Impact Alliance, which received a two-year $300,000 grant from Key Bank on Monday, Nov. 5. The grant will support the ongoing work the organizations, known collectively as RISE Together, are performing to expand affordable housing and local business in the Central District. “The Central District has a lot of redlining history,” Capitol Hill Housing spokesperson Yiling Wong said. “And there are
deep African American, Black American history here.” Key Bank officials gave a large check on Nov. 5 to RISE Together at the Liberty Bank building, named for the first blackowned bank in the west that once stood there at 24th Avenue and East Union. Liberty Bank first opened in 1968, and 50 years later it is the site for a mixeduse redevelopment that will provide more than 100 affordable apartment units and ground-floor retail space for multiple local minority-owned businesses. “Now in redeveloping it, Capitol Hill Housing in partnership with community partners is working to honor the heritage of the building while also building continuity with the past,” Wong said. CHH senior vice president Jill Fleming said the two-year grant from Key Bank will be used for more than just the Liberty Bank project. RISE Together is working in three Seattle neighborhoods on a campaign
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Photo by Danielle Chastaine The RISE Together coalition held a tour of the Liberty Bank building on Monday, Nov. 5. to build affordable homes and business capacities. Another project includes Africantown Plaza. There is also some work being done to preserve LGBTQ art in Capitol Hill, and CHH is working on housing in White Center, outside of Seattle. A small group was granted the privilege to tour the work being done on the Liberty Bank building. Outside the building,
a bright mural is painted on the six-story façade to welcome residents and visitors at the entrance. Upstairs 115 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments are under construction. Each apartment has large windows with views of the neighborhood, LIBERTY, Page 10