The following are the nominated buildings in or near Belltown. Each building's current familiar name is followed by its best-known former name, if any, and its year of construction:

- Ace Hotel/Cyclops (Glaser Building), First and Wall, 1909

- Blu Canary (MGM Pictures), Second and Battery, 1936

- Brasa restaurant (Metropolitan Printing), Third and Lenora, 1923

- Castle Apartments, Second and Blanchard, 1918

- Cinerama Theater, Fourth and Lenora, 1963

- Compton Building (Bon Marché Stables/Compton Lumber Co.), Western near Bell, 1908

- Davenport Apartments, Fifth and Vine, 1925

- El Gaucho (Sailors Union of the Pacific/Trade Winds), First and Wall, 1954

- Fifth Avenue Court, Fifth and Lenora, 1922

- Hotel Max (Vance Hotel), Seventh and Stewart, 1926

- Labor Temple, Second and Clay, 1942

- Lexington-Concord Apartments, Second and Battery, 1923

- Lloyd Building, Sixth and Stewart, 1926

- Mayflower Hotel (Bergonian Hotel), Fourth and Stewart, 1927

- Rivoli Apartments, Second and Blanchard, date unknown

- Roq La Rue (RKO Pictures/Galleria Potatohead), Second near Bell, 1928

- Two Bells Tavern (Hewitt's Cafe), 1923

- Tyee Building, Fourth and Olive, 1925

- Watermarke at the Regrade (Cedar Apartments), Third and Cedar, 1908

- William Tell Apartments (William Tell Hotel), Second near Bell, 1925

- Zeek's Pizza (Rodeo Cafe/The Hub), Fifth and Denny, 1902

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One building not on the City's list of maybe-landmarks is the former Weathered Wall/I-Spy nightclub on Fifth near Virginia. The building now bears a MUP board, announcing its owners' intention to replace it with a condo-hotel tower.

Another newly-announced project, by Harbor Properties, would build an apartment tower as high as 160 feet on a 13,000-square-foot lot at the southeast corner of Third and Cedar. The building would also include street-level retail, four floors of office space, and two floors of underground parking. John Pehrson and Ron Turner of the Belltown Housing and Land Use Subcommittee have issued a statement expressing concerns about the project's planned height, which would be 35 feet taller than others in its immediate vicinity.

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The Plymouth Housing Group has announced its 14th affordable-housing project, to be built in a current parking lot at the southeast forner of First and Cedar. The project would combine 84 studio units with tenant support services and street-level retail. The non-profit developer tentatively plans to start construction in September 2008 and finish in January 2010.

Plymouth expects its 13th project, the 95-unit Langdon and Anne Simons Senior Apartments on Third near Blanchard, to be ready for occupancy this coming January.

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The Great Seattle Paint-Out returns to Belltown on Aug. 18-19. Volunteers are sought to help cover up graffiti on area buildings and structures. To participate, log onto paintout.org or call 800-525-5431, extension 540.

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The Bus Tunnel reopens this September. Third Avenue, which became a bus-only street during rush hours while the tunnel was closed for retrofitting, will now stay that way. King County Metro will reroute 22 bus routes from FIrst, Second, and Fourth avenues to Third. There's no word yet which routes those will be, or how the move will affect Belltown's bus service.

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Early in the morning of July 2, a man fired a series of gunshots in a Western Avenue parking lot, near the Tabella Restaurant and Lounge. An 18-year-old woman was hit in the leg, just outside the 66 Bell loft homes; she was treated at Harborview and released. Another bullet shattered the window of architect Henry Lo's 66 Bell unit. A 21-year-old man, who'd been arguing with about two dozen other men in the parking lot, was arrested.

Lo has joined other community advocates in asking authorities to shut down Tabella. They claim the club and its parking lot have regularly been trouble spots for noise and fights for the past two years. On July 13, Mayor Greg Nickels endorsed the calls for Tabella's closure. He named it among eight clubs in greater downtown with more than 20 police incidents from January 2006 to April 2007. (The others included Venom, Belltown Billiards, and five Pioneer Square bars.)

But on July 20, the Washington State Liquor Control Board said there was insufficient evidence to tie Tabella to the shooting incident, and that there were not grounds to hit the business with a 180-day emergency liquor license suspension.

July also marked the one-year anniversary of the July 28, 2006 shooting at the Jewish Federation office at Third and Lenora, in which one woman was killed and five were injured. Naveed Haq, arrested on the day of the shooting, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity; his trial is set to begin in January.

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Where does a restaurant's automatically billed "service charge" end up? Now you'll know, thanks to a state law that took effect July 22. Under the "Service Charge Disclosure Act," much of the service charge is passed on to workers, and how much is kept by the facility, will be disclosed to customers and to the workers themselves. The labor group UNITE HERE Local 8, which had lobbied for the law, held a press conference in Freeway Park the day the law took effect. Union spokesperson Jessica Lawson said, "A transparent breakdown of the service charge will empower Washington's 200,000-plus hotel and food service workers.... Also, customers will have the opportunity to gauge whether the people who help make their event a success are getting their fair share of this automatic charge."

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The Pacific Science Center's annual "Bubbles, Boats, and More" summer science festival is coming Aug. 8-12. Casey Carle, billed as an "international bubble champion artist," will hold workshops and demonstrations of his bubble-making skills three times a day. Other events include arts and crafts, bubble blowing, boat races, and kayak rides. Visitors will learn to create decorative bubble wands and to paint with bubbles. The Science Center's ponds will be transformed into "whimsical bubble lands" filled with kayak rides and build-a-boat races.

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Seattle Tilth and the Downtown Seattle Association are holding container gardening and composting classes for apartment and condo dwellers in Victor Steinbrueck Park. The free classes take place Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Aug. 8 through 29. Pre-registration's required; log onto seattletilth.org or call 633-4045, extension 2.

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