Weather

• 75º | Partly sunny | 7% chance of rain

Sunrise + Sunset

• Rise: 5:04 a.m.

• Set: 9:03 p.m.

Announced

• Get your party on, SLU. After a two-year hiatus, the South Lake Union Block Party is returning for its 16th year. The event will be held Fri., Aug. 5 and will have food trucks, a beer garden, live music  artmaking, and fifty local business booths. 🛍️  

Health

• Dr. Faisal Khan — who has over 25 years of leadership experience in public health at various levels — was appointed as the new King County Director of Public Health. He’ll start the role on Tues., Sept. 6, but interim director Dennis Worshom will continue to serve until then. 🩺 (Seattle Weekly)

Sports

• Let’s make it reign. OL Reign’s Jess Fishlock has been nominated for the 2022 ESPYS in the category of Best NWSL Player. Seattleites can vote for Jess as she competes with title players from D.C. and New Jersey. The winner will be announced on Wed., July 20 at 8 p.m. EST. ⚽

Opening

• Tired of waterfront views? Nope, not yet. Executive Chef Dan Mallahan + wife Jackie announced their new restaurant Driftwood will open this summer in Seattle’s Alki Beach neighborhood. No specific opening date has been announced, but restaurant plans include an expansive bar, an open kitchen + two outdoor spaces with views of Elliot Bay. 🍸

Community

• The Wayne Apartments building, which became a city landmark in 2015, was severely damaged in a fire yesterday morning. The vacant complex was built between 1889 and 1891 and is one of the last examples of a rowhouse. There were no injuries in the fire, nor is there any known cause for the blaze. 🏢 (KING 5)

Traffic

• SDOT put out a few travel tips to help folks get around more quickly during the holiday weekend. The guide includes ramp + lane closures with detours, traffic information for two major league sports games + the Seafair Summer Fourth festival, and public transit resources. 🚌

Outdoors

• Swim safely, Seattle. Residents can now sign up for King County Natural Resources & Parks weekly alerts about the status of water quality at 27 lake beaches. The department also offers a map that includes updated information about freshwater swimming beach samplings with levels of bacteria, algal toxin + temperature. 🌊

Ranked

• No. 10. That’s what Seattle ranked in Anytime Estimate’s list of best biking cities in the country. The city was also listed in the top twenty overall bike-friendly cities by People for Bikes and in its top five for larger cities. 🚲 (The Seattle Times)

State

• New laws for Washington State go into effect today. Local gun shops will be affected by a ban on selling high-capacity magazines. And a retail tax deferral program goes into place for clean technology investment projects, allowing businesses to delay their use. See the five other bills. (King 5)

Read

• Need a book for the beach? Third Place Books just announced its Summer Reading Recommendations with genres like true crime, mystery, romance, fantasy, self-discovery + more. Highlights from the list include a new Taylor Jenkins Reid book called Carrie Soto is Back and must-read debut Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley. 📚

DYK

• Whoa — talk about skyrocketing bills. After a Seattle couple bought a home in Northgate, they discovered the price for getting Comcast internet would cost over $27,000. The estimated price was based on the company’s need to install 181 ft of underground cable since the home was skipped during Comcast’s original neighborhood wiring. 🏡 (ArsTechnica)

Number

• 1.4 million. That’s how many gallons of trash were picked up around the city last year by the DSA/MID Clean Team ambassadors. The effort to clean up the city included 44,988 trike clean-ups, 27,039 graffiti tags removed + 60 miles of sidewalks washed. 🧹

Correction

• On Wed., June 29, we incorrectly announced that the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s The Concert Truck: Pier 62 at Waterfront Park was happening on Thurs., June 30 at 11 a.m. The concert will instead happen today, Fri., July 1, at 11 a.m. Bring a lawn chair and witness the audible and visual spectacle of a chamber concert on wheels. 🎻