(Image: All the Best)
A new era for an E Olive Way commercial building begins Friday as All the Best debuts its new Capitol Hill store:
After sitting vacant, boarded up, and behind fencing since 2022, this historic space has been transformed into a bright, welcoming destination for Capitol Hill’s pet lovers. Local illustrator Sarah Robbins helped bring the space to life with a joyful mural that reflects the energy of the neighborhood—and the pets we serve.
Starting on the 13th, All the Best says it is welcoming dogs (“and brave cats”) with “tasty treats, and offering personalized recommendations on the best food, treats, and gear to help them thrive.”
CHS reported here in October as the Seattle-based pet care company made plans for what will be its 18th store in the region to take over the former E Olive Way Starbucks. The 4,000-square-foot commercial building has served as a home to a string of restaurants and chains like Boston Market and the coffee giant since 1937.
The new All the Best features mural work by artist Sarah Robbins (Image: All the Best)
Starbucks shuttered the popular “Gaybucks” cafe in 2022. CHS reported here on the political, real estate, and labor factors also behind the closure and a handful of other locations around the city that Starbucks claimed to be closing over crime fears.
CEO Jim Castleberry said the E Olive Way property’s increasingly rare surface parking lot was a draw, touting the 17 parking spaces across from Summit Slope Park that will be available for the shop.
A bigger, cuddlier, more bark-y and meow-y and chirp-y element? Capitol Hill’s consumer demographics and healthy population of fur babies.
All the Best is joined by the recently opened Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming location above Broadway and Pike in a small pack of Capitol Hill pet-centered businesses arriving this spring.
With the June 13th opening, All the Best says it will have special treats for visiting pets during Pride weekend June 28 and 29 and is planning a grand opening celebration for July 12 and 13th.
The Capitol Hill All the Best is located at 1600 E Olive Way. Learn more at allthebestpetcare.com.
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This is great news. This long-blighted location will be back as a useful resource. I’ve been to All the Best in their other locations. They have a lot of decent products and staff is usually empathetic, helpful, and friendly.
Appreciate your positivity Chris. I share it one hundred percent.
New business and less blight = win
this should be a 20+ story building
They’ve already done several studies and reports and that section of the city will not support that much weight in that area. And really? 20+ stories there?
lol what? not support that much “weight” – what are you smoking? it’s a hill made out of rock
Rock… nooooooo. Have you not ever seen the regrade? They washed half of the hill down to the bottom with hoses to make it less steep. Bedrock, nope.. Capitol Hill is a big pile of glacial till – dirt. There’s some bedrock down there somewhere, but it’s down below hundreds, if not thousands of feet of dirt.
BTW – the light rail is at its deepest 300 feet down, underneath Volunteer Park – and the tunnel machine definitely was never boring through bedrock – just good old glacial till.
It’s most certainly subglacial till, what are you smoking?
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1252/
so the argument here is that we can’t build tall buildings?
Are you having conversations in your head buddy? Where did I say that? You’re literally just making things up… like that the hill is made of rock instead of an incredibly unstable mix of glacial flour, boulders, and all sorts of other stuff.
There’s nothing about this small corner at the base of a large hill, several blocks downhill from the light rail station, and adjacent to our largest freeway, that screams it should be a 20+ story tower. I would have liked it to be housing and not supplies for our GMO live-in teddy bears for the mostly privileged class, but you can’t just make random things up to try to make a point. Read a bit more and comment less.
this is what i responded to first:
“They’ve already done several studies and reports and that section of the city will not support that much weight in that area. And really? 20+ stories there?”
this certainly implies that 20 stories is not possible here because of technical concerns rather than the true reason – we have made it illegal to put housing at scale near where we’re spending billions of dollars on transit infrastructure. this is 100% a political choice, not one of technology.
Except your reply was a blatantly false statement that the hill is made of rock, when it is not, with zero mention of policy… Building in Seattle is complicated, there’s an erratic mix of deposits with a lot of loose glacial flour. Towers are doable and work great above/adjacent to light rail and parks, but isn’t the answer everywhere. This spot, while close to the light rail, is on a historically notorious bus route and near one of the worst highway on ramps and intersections in the city.
You could make a cogent argument for a tower here, but making facts up out of thin air is just unhelpful for everyone else and embarrassing for you.
I’m asking why the city outlaws towers here. If the claim is that the soil conditions are so dangerous that the city must make it illegal to build here, that’s one thing. If the argument is that it would be expensive, then that’s a different thing and shouldn’t require use of police power to prevent it.
Finally a cogent argument!
Okay, now we can start a real discussion. Here’s a 60 page geotechnical report for an 8 story building that was proposed across the street. Not outrageous, but a lot of consideration and possibilities for changes with the need to test throughout the project and possibly change course… That’s just an 8 story timber framed building. I would love to see what was mentioned for a tower.
https://web.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/GetDocument?id=10749968
I’m not against towers, in fact I think they are necessary for us to meet housing needs, but making things up to support your argument is dumb and unhelpful.
So it sounds like we don’t need to ban towers here? We have rules in place to ensure that they would be safe? Why do we have laws using the police power to prevent towers then?
Welcome to earth buddy, I think this is the conversation you’re looking for:
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/06/new-proposed-center-boundaries-seattle-re-starts-process-of-pounding-out-new-20-year-growth-plan-with-compromises-in-montlake-madison-park-and-madrona/
So you agree that this is purely a political issue and not some safety issue or technical inability to build towers here? What exactly were you arguing about then?????
This was a boarded up building that is now a functioning space, not my favorite use but a use. You responded out of nowhere that it should have been a 20+ story tower (an option I’m not aware of being on the table) and then dismissed potential concerns that were brought up about geotechnical issues with easily disproven facts and then continued to obtusely argue around this issue trying to make some point. You could try supporting the 8 story building that seems stalled across the street. I don’t know why this imaginary tower is the hill you want to die on when there are two empty lots sitting above the west entrance of the Capitol Hill light rail station undeveloped. As I said, I think towers are necessary, along with a lot of mid rise and other forms of housing… if you do too, you’re not really helping with the argument or implementation with whatever it is you’re doing here.
it’s not an option on the table because the city has made it literally illegal for it to be an option. folks here then claimed that it was because of geotechnical concerns, which is clearly not why the city has made it illegal here. it’s ALSO illegal to build an 8 story building here, for no apparent reason other than selfishness of current housed folks.
There are certainly good arguments for not building ultra tall buildings on glacial till in an earthquake zone… Or did you forget that we have those too?
just so that i’m understanding, the zoning here is because of glacial till? are the 11-12 story buildings further down the hill perched above i-5 a danger to live in? should we be tearing them down?
Ok, so we outlaw towers here because of safety concerns? I have never seen this shown anywhere in potential zoning maps, so it’s shocking to me.
and yes, a few blocks from a multi-billion dollar piece of transit infra should be 20-40 story towers at a minimum.
This was the first time I’d ever seen a boarded up building… as in every square inch of the exterior of the building covered with plywood.
Tiffany Smiley (R) stood in front of a green screen with image of the closed Starbucks. “You can’t even get a cup of coffee in Starbucks home town!” Was her punch line. Her moronic strategy appealed to rural voters east of the mountains, but she lost Seattle 4 to 1 and the eastside suburbs 2 to 1, losing in landslide. What a dumbass move.
Does this mean there’s a chance of less dogshit on Cap Hill sidewalks? Said in jest, of course, because people that walk their dogs without a poo bg will always be animals as well, just like their pets…..