Curious about the new Hard Rock Cafe? Me, too. And since it’s in my ‘hood, on the way home yesterday, I stopped to snap a shot across the street from the Second Avenue and Pike Street construction site.

The “bones” of the old building look gorgeous–coliseum-style and majestic. Here’s a link to the official Web site, with the architect’s rendering of the final facade and interior spaces.

Whether patronized by tourists or locals, here’s hoping this establishment helps to clean up this notoriously bad block of downtown Seattle.