Push x Pull, a Portland “natural-process” coffee roaster, has expanded to Seattle with a friendly takeover of a Central District cafe.

Willamette Week reports that Push x Pull is now open on E Union in the former Union Coffee space:

The other big Push x Pull news is its acquisition of a Seattle shop, the former Union Coffee and Wine in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Prior to buying the business, Push x Pull had been supplying beans to Union. When the owner there decided to return to Atlanta to be with family, a sale to Push x Pull made the most sense.

In addition to the existing coffee bean relationship, WW reports that founder Christopher Hall has already been splitting his time between Portland and Seattle where his wife works.

CHS reported here in September 2020 on new ownership at Union as coffee connoisseur and former Boon Boona Coffee wholesale manager Geetu Vailoor took over the Union cafe and wine shop in the middle of the pandemic.

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Zack Reinig, spouse of Molly Moon Neitzel of Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, first opened Union in 2016 as part of the new construction of The Stencil development.

Hall and business partner Emma Reeves, meanwhile, have grown Push x Pull over its five years of roasting into a provider of unique and small batches with an emphasis on natural-process beans — sun-dried production that leans on some of the oldest traditions in coffee roasting and can yield some of the deepest and most distinctive flavors.

Push x Pull now arrives in Seattle but it isn’t the only new neighbor from out of town on the block. Last month, the Forbidden Cannabis Club family of marijuana stores expanded from shops in Carson, Lacey, Okanogan, Olympia with its latest new store in the former Ponder location. The Portland-based coffee maker will also neighbor three-year-old Lowrider Baking Company and Central District lifestyle and fashion shop CURA.

Meanwhile, the nearby E Union coffee scene is rich in surrounding new developments. Socially minded Squirrel Chops deputed just west of 23rd and Union in 2016 and Cafe Avole’s hopes for bringing Ethiopian coffee tradition to the Liberty Bank Building finally came to fruition earlier this year. Looking for something non-caffeinated to pick you up? District Juice and Smoothie recently opened at 25th and Union in the former Melo Cafe space.

Push x Pull Union is located at 2407 E Union. Learn more at pushxpullcoffee.com/seattle.

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