Seattle’s proposed new 20-year zoning plan that would scratch the surface of increasing density on the city’s most residential streets includes a proposal that would make it easier to open corner markets across the city. A new business coming to Capitol Hill’s already densely packed Broadway won’t have to wait for any of that. It won’t even be located on a corner.
Plans are underway for Neighborhood Market to open a new small grocery store on Capitol Hill in the Hollywood Lofts development next to Dick’s Drive-in.
“Neighborhood Market is a community-based convenience store expanding its presence in Seattle, Washington,” one permit filing for the new project reads. “Our original store is in Renton and we are looking to open another one in Seattle.”
The first Neighborhood Market opened earlier this year.
The new Capitol Hill project is coming together in the redeveloped building in the 100 block of Broadway E in a space once home to one of the street’s two Zoom Care clinics. The one-time Del Teet furniture building was designed by Frederick Anhalt long before a preservation incentive-boosted overhaul by neighborhood real estate investor Ron Amundson converted it to mixed-use in the last decade. Capitol Hill’s location of the Hollywood Video chain shuttered suddenly there in 2009. The new version of the building includes the chain’s old neon sign.
The incoming grocery market will have neighbors. Currently, the Hollywood Lofts building is home to the Capitol Hill location of the Don’t Yell At Me bubble tea chain that opened there in late 2022.
The 2,424-square-foot space has been empty since Zoom Care’s exit and listed for $38/square foot per month year rent plus building expenses. While the company announced the expansion a month ago, the new market won’t necessarily be a quick turnaround. Part of moving in will be undoing the light infrastructure of the short-lived minute clinic to give the space a renewed, open retail layout.
Neighborhood Market carries convenience store essentials like chips and beer, plus a few grocery basics and makes a “one-stop destination for convenience, snacks, and everyday essentials.”
While CHS has reported on plenty of convenience stores closing and making way for new development, new quick shops opening are a little more rare. With the slow retreat of service stations and grocery chains from Central Seattle and continued financial turmoil for large pharmacy chains like Rite Aid and Walgreens, demand for the convenience stores might be a growing market opportunity.
On some corners of the city, a more craft approach to the cornershop has taken hold including Cone and Steiner which currently stands as a two-location grocery chain after its 19th Ave E start.
Meanwhile, across the street from the coming new Neighborhood Market, year of anticipation for the arrival of a new H Mart above Capitol Hill Station were answered by that company’s “urban convenience” store concept M2M which debuted on Broadway in 2022.
Neighborhood Market is coming to 127 Broadway E. Learn more at @neighborhoodmarket_renton.
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Great!! Need tons of these.
How is that adding anything to the neighborhood? Like a gas station junk food stop. What are we doing in this city? Embarrassing to have this take up space here.
Better than an empty storefront or another dentist office or bank. In Japan, Korea, and other asian countries the local mini-mart is actually a staple of many neighborhoods.
Or pretty much the entire east coast metro area…
You make an excellent point.
lol, there’s a small asian grocery store directly across the street.
Yeah, and they close at 10 and sell things for 2 times what they’re worth
Should it just be a vegetable store?
We have like no bodegas, pardon my language, but wtf are you talking about
Tress wants to tell you what you can and can’t eat like a good nanny stater.
Love to see this, more please.
There’s actually a need for this. Glad to see something going in rather than an empty storefront.
Any idea why a convenience store is setting up shop across the street from an established grocery store? Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad someone will be leasing the space, but I’m just a little confused why they would opt for that particular location.
Grocery store has crap hours and extremely high prices even for this part of the world. We have nothing really on this part of the Hill that fills a this niche. It’s a good add imo.
I don’t think the grocery store sells smokes.
I generally welcome this. I just hope it’s staffed adequately enough to deal with the environment.
Grocery stores all sell smokes. Walmart etc. It’s all locked up at customer service.
Maybe different items and demands that the specialty grocery store doesn’t have
If you are just grabbing beer and ciggies or milk and bread? It’s a better option.
$38/sqft is insane if that correct, no wonder so many places have been closing, if Seattle is dying is because of the egregious landlording. I love all of money being funneled into hedge fund portfolio owned multinational realtor conglomerates provide the illustrious service of (checks notes) driving up land price even more through speculation
I hope they can survive without overpricing things to much and are open past 10pm that would be cool
yeah what?? isn’t that $92000 a month or am I doing the math wrong? there’s no way that can be right, can it?
looking at other commercial spaces for rent that’s per year. so it’s ~$8k a month, still definitely expensive but not completely improbable lol.
“Plus building expenses” which probably means triple-net (NNN), which means another 15% or so in building insurance, maintenance, and property taxes. So figure $10k all-in.
On the FB CHB there was just a small business owner asking about how to resolve and have support in an area of recent “trouble.” I hope that those asking for full on accelerationism or socialism for the City of Seattle realize that it’s the small business owners that pay the NNN (property taxes and just the ability to exist here) and the non millionaires with average owned apartments/condos or houses support this area in taxes. We will pay and be stained for the free housing, medical, food, and clothing that individuals are clamoring for in the creation of a socialistic state. In bulk, it’s not the Amazon and the biotech doing the heavy lifting.
I have no problem with it but King of the Hill is only like a block and a half down. If they can both make it work, though, nice.