(Image: Sunright Tea Studio)
Capitol Hill is taking another step closer to fulfilling its manifest destiny of a boba shop on every block.
There is a Sunright Tea Studio coming to the Pride Place senior housing and services development on Broadway between Pike and Pine.
The arrival of the chain’s new shop gearing up for construction on the senior housing building’s street level will actually make two tea joints on the block. COMEBUYTEA opened last year in the former Starbucks at Pike and Broadway.
Sunright is making plans for the smallest retail space in the mix below Pride Place where preservation incentives included the incorporation of elements from the landmarked auto row-era Eldridge Tire Company building into the development. The auto row remnants were most recently home to small businesses like Tacos Guaymas and Folicle Hair Design before the redevelopment. With a landmark designation, the new building kept the old Mission Revival-styled structure’s facade while preservation incentives help boost the project’s unit count.
(Image: Community Roots Housing)
The affordable, LGBTQIA-friendly senior community development neighboring the block’s classic gay nightclub Neighbours is readying a strong roster of food and drink businesses to join it including Indian restaurant Spice Box which is making a move across the street to join the Community Roots Housing development.
Late night nosh chain Insomnia Cookies is also lined up to be part of the Pride Place mix.
As far as Capitol Hill boba goes, Sunright will join a robust and growing community. The chain is said to have been founded by a group of Californians with Chinese backgrounds who opened the first location in ChengDu and have since grown the company to locations around the world. There are also Sunright locations in the U District and in Federal Way.
Boba on every block? It’s coming. A Gong cha Tea cafe is also being planned replacing a boutique fashion shop at 12th and Pike.
Sunright Tea Studio will open this year at 1523 Broadway. Learn more at snrtea.com.
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Waiting for this to open (down the street):
The Fried Chicken Boba Tea Kombucha Gymnasium Emporium.
“The Fried Chicken Boba Tea Kombucha Gymnasium Emporium.” Thrift shop…
Glad to see more businesses but I don’t think Capitol Hill can sustain 2 boba tea shops within 100 feet of each other. Eventually the fad will pop and only the best will remain.
I am beginning to worry about the “boba desert” that has developed between Pine and Denny. It should be outrageous to everyone that someone might need to walk more than a block on Broadway to access boba.
Very true, we need at least two on every block.
Joking aside, I hope the new shop does well.
Restaurants are opening? I was told by all the far right commenters that seattle is dying
I’m old enough to remember when leftists would loathe a trendy capitalistic pig big chain coming into a neighborhood.
Thankfully, Wingstop seemed to open without a hitch.
I heard they were awesome.
really? when was that? I am not ancient but.
Perhaps just one of the million boba tea shops in Seattle could offer decaffeinated and unsweetened tea? Not everyone can have caffeine.
Sounds like a great idea for you to do.
Aw, got excited by the name. I hold out hope that one of these days a shop with “Tea” in the name will actually primarily serve (hot, steeped) tea.
I miss Remedy.
lololol “boba community”? lololol