J has been feeling entrepreneurial lately. Don’t worry. He’ll get it out of his system as soon as he remembers how lazy he is. But we’ve been kicking around ideas about the neighborhood and what businesses it has and doesn’t have.
What would you add to 15th/19th Aves if you were going to open a store? Maybe a real-life entrepreneur type will read this and make your wish come true. Here’s our list of what would be fun/useful/potentially successful in the ‘hood:
- cheese shop
- soccer shop
- barber shop (we want another, please)
- shipping and mail service
- hobby store
- Capitol Hill Seattle souvenir and monkey shop
–j/k
A high end food market like this joint in Bellevue:http://www.porcellaurbanmarket.com/
A real hardware store.
– a bookstore
– a hardware store
– a deli/specialty cheese store
– a blog (oh, wait…)
PLEASE a real hardware store. It is killing me. The old City People’s was fine!
A bar on 19th would be nice, a pub or bar, but more a bar than a restaurant.
pffft, we meant a money making venture. no blogs need apply.
How about a men’s clothing store a la Blackbird in Ballard? That place would clean up on 15th ave…
A doner kebab stand or shop.
A Dry Cleaners
cheese shop/deli
hardware store
mail/postal place
Duh. An ice cream parlor.
Agreed: a REAL hardware store. Nearest one is now on 45th: Welch’s is but a memory.
City People’s started off where the Country Doctor now is, moved to where the Post Office on 15th now is (had an upstairs as well), which is where I first discovered it, then moved over to the Walgren’s site (which had been a down factory!).
I’ve been praying for a Microsoft retire(e?) with a penchant for hardware.
“make it so”.
AFT
Computer store of some sort. Like the PC Club that was on Broadway for a time.
A quality restaurant open for dinner – like Nishino, Etta’s or the old (and now gone) Cassis. We’d go once a week.
Let’s save the North Hill Bakery from the N. Capitol Hill Mommie Mafia, Buy a loaf of bread or mufins in support. We need them to stay on Capitol Hill.
“Let’s save the North Hill Bakery from the N. Capitol Hill Mommie Mafia”
What does this mean? Is the Bakery going away? Somebody explain this. I would like to ensure a constant supply of pudgy-fudgies and whole wheat cinnamon rolls.
Another barber shop? What’s wrong with Jim’s?
It’s funny that you’d list a hobby shop, that’s something I’ve been mulling over as well, given my current obsession with radio controlled cars. Better yet
Hardware/general store – yes please!
Blue C should open a joint on 15th. Decent, fast, inexpensive sushi.
There’s a US post office on 15th? I’m new to the neighborhood, where is it?
latest anon, there’s no PO I know of on 15th. Maybe Andrew is talking about some kind of mail processing facility which I think I’ve seen around here somewhere. The closest honest-to-gosh post office that I know about is 1463 E Republican.
Skating Rink!
Wandering around the ‘hood today and looking a little more closely has revealed a few surprises. We have a few of things we want already. Who knew? For example, YES!, there is a place to mail packages etc just around the corner from Victrola, next to Jalisco on Republican — That Shop Mailing Store. I’ll write up that and some other surprises/reminders when I get some free time.
(btw, thanks for all the cool ideas. neat-o to see so many commentS)
I’d like to see a newstand/hotdog vendor, a NY deli, yoga studio, a pet store, and a restaurant open on Sunday and Monday.
A small gym/fitness center. It would be nice to be able to walk somewhere to work out. The only alternatives in the area are Gold’s (deteriorating) or Denali Fitness (spendy).
seriously, a real harware store. although, FYI, the closest one is probably Pacific Supply Company on 12th between pike and madison.
and i emphatically second the gym idea! love yoga but sometimes i want to lift some weights!
Madison Park is a lot closer than 45th – and they have an honest-to-god old-fashioned family-run hardware store with a little bit of everything, plus they’ll order stuff for you if they don’t carry it. Sort of like the old City People’s when it was just a funky storefront on 19th..
“Obama Headquarters and Brewpub”
I am serious! Drinking Liberally, 7 days a week, focussed on Obama.
A genuine Deli. Well, maybe not exactly like the ones I grew up with in Dorchester, but someplace you can get a good sanwich, maybe both Jewish and Italian coldcuts, light meals, …
call it I’ld call it Uncle Louies … after an Uncle of mine who worked as a a mafiosa selling protection to kosher butchers.
Capitol needs a good hardware store!!! I’m not sure the heart of 15th is the right place, but that is the single thing that bugs me about living on the hill. The plumbing place on 12th doesn’t cut it in the slightest.