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The Capitol Hill Starbucks Roastery is permanently closed. Starbucks shut down the more than $20 million coffee destination with boarded windows and a paper sign Thursday morning.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the closure of the Seattle Reserve Roastery. This location has been the destination of coffee lovers from down the block and around the world,” it read. “That you have chosen to share this experience with us is deeply appreciated.
For our Cap Hill neighbors, thank you for making us a part of your life. Your loyalty over the years and the meaningful connections you have made with our partners will not be forgotten.”
The shutdown comes as the coffee giant announced it is shutting down more “underperforming stores” and laying off 900 workers. The company previously announced it was laying off 1,100 in cuts earlier this year.
Monday, unionized workers from Starbucks Workers United were outside the Melrose roastery rallying for a fair contract. Melrose roastery workers at the massive store, roasting plant, restaurant, and cafe voted to unionize in 2022.
The sudden closure of the Capitol Hill roastery is only the latest in the company’s unwinding from the neighborhood and the city as it has turned to smaller, cheaper to run, licensed kiosks in grocery stores and hospitals to keep its presence in its home city.
Many of the closures have come against the backdrop of organized labor.
The roastery employs dozens of workers but it was not immediately clear how many were being let go with the closure. The company reportedly is inviting workers at the location to apply to work at other roasteries.
UPDATE: In a statement to CHS, Starbucks said it will continue to operate roasteries in Chicago, Milan, New York, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
Starbucks tells CHS “represented status” was not a factor in closing the Melrose location.
“We’re working with Workers United on next steps for the partners they represent, intend to offer transfers where possible and will move quickly to help partners understand what opportunities might be available to them,” the statement reads.
UPDATE x2: We asked Starbucks for more information about how many workers were let go from the Capitol Hill roastery. We also asked about the status of the company’s lease in the buildng.
A company spokesperson could not provide the information. “Our focus right now is on supporting partners as we work to transfer as many as possible to nearby locations and help them understand what opportunities might be available to them now and in the future as we return to growth,” they said.
The Melrose crew was caught fully off guard by the shutdown with some scrambling to retrieve their personal belongings from the shuttered facility.
The company informed its workers of the closure on a Thursday morning conference call.
The shutdown is the latest corporate exit from the neighborhood set to leave a major hole in the commercial mix of Broadway, Pike, and Pine. Nearest to the Melrose roastery, Amazon’s abrupt closure of its E Pike grocery in April 2024 has left that block emptied and boarded.
Before the roastery shutdown, Capitol Hill also lost its Whole Foods when that Amazon-backed company closed its 40,000-square-foot Broadway store.
The empty Whole Foods space — and possibly others in the. mix of recent big company exits — could remain empty for a long time. City paperwork revealed that the grocery company holds a lease through 2038 for the boarded-up property.
It is unknown if Amazon and Starbucks hold similar leases for the spaces they have exited.
The Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room opened at the base of Capitol Hill in December 2014 as one of the first in the company’s concept of showcase destinations.
CHS first broke the news on the goliath plans for the project in the former home of an art supply store and Volvo dealership a year earlier. Starbucks signed a long term lease with the building’s longtime owners who selected coffee over beer for the future of the one-time Packard dealership.
Thursday morning, visitors gathered around the plywood-covered windows to read the Starbucks closure notice and searched their phones for nearby cafe options. Up the street, Capitol Hill-born Victrola was open for business.
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Before anybody else says something stupid: this is not because of crime, or woke, or even solely union busting (though the last point is definitely a factor in it). They are cannibalizing Starbucks to eventually sell it off to private equity. This is the way of corporate deaths. The “Bankrupt” series from Bright Sun Films on YouTube explains this process. Click on basically any restaurant chain video from them and it begins this way, with closures. Starbucks isn’t going to be a company in ten years, or if it is, it will be much diminished.
Hyperbolic and a guess
lol no
“Before anybody ELSE says something stupid…” (proceeds to say something stupid)
Congrats wackjob, you were the first to say something stupid.
“I watched a YouTube video…”
I would hate to see another Northwest institution like Starbucks fall into the hands of private equity, but I do fear your prediction will come true at some point in the future. Private equity does seem to be where a lot of large businesses are ending up these days.
Another company being run into the ground. They can’t even have their own locations in the most dense neighborhood of their home town. Bring in Dunkin and more independent coffee houses that actually know what they are doing.
On the flip side I don’t see union pickets at those joints so maybe they are paid or treated more fairly.
And now more blight for Capitol Hill. That thing will sit vacant for a long time because real estate firms will be asking too much.
How ignorant are you to think Duncan (a franchise model) treats their employees better?
How ignorant are you buddy that this was just random suggestioning in a blog site. And you can’t spell correctly.
best not to make up words like suggestioning when pointing out spelling errors
Perhaps not, but I do like the new word that has come out of this. A nice synonym of “speculation” and “speculation”.
I’m a tiny bit dyslexic. I do it sometimes. If the spell check don’t catch it
Spelling issue was what? Not seeing it. Even if there, a spelling issue? Jezus.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the average Starbucks employee here made more than the average Victrola employee.
Why don’t these disaffected Starbucks employees seek employment at a different coffee shop if Starbucks abuses their employees and pays them so poorly? Everyone talks about how many shops there are for customers to choose from. Well, they all have employees. Go make yourself one and leave the oppressive, anti-union, corporate oppressor behind. Free thyself.
Glenn, US unionization rate is around 10%…there’s hardly any unionized companies to switch to…
Don’t make excuses for Starbucks shareholder’s greed. That’s all this is. They also fired 2000 corporate employees this year…should they just seek better “union” jobs too? Ignorant ass
“Starbucks abuses their employees and pays them so poorly?”
Except nobody is saying that. It’s just you again Glenn. MAGA attitude.
Why get a new job when you can unionize and make your current job better? Even if another non-union local coffee shop treats their employees better, the employees still have no say in their conditions. Hopping around employers is not a solution to problems in the workplace, no matter where you go, all you will do is trade one problem for another. When you organize and take collective action to fix your workplaces problems, then you start building a job worth having. “Get a better job” is such a smooth brained capitalist bootlicking bullshit, you really should be embarrassed.
I’m surprised that Dunkin hasn’t tried to set up shop in our region. I would think that we would have enough customers to support a modest presence (a couple dozen locations across the metro area, including a few in Seattle itself).
That stretch of Pike sure looks a lot different than a month ago- no Mamnoon, Stateside, Foreign National, and now Starbucks. Hope Terra Plata and Six Arms are able to hang on!
100% We are losing the evening (5-10pm) appeal that one once defined the Pike/Pine neighborhood. Walk from the QFC on the south side of Pike down to the Roastery. Then walk Ballard, Stone Way, Renton (Williams Street), Kirkland and you see that our friends from outside the neighborhood are voting with their feet.
I would never go to capitol hill in the evening anymore.
Options are an expensive dinner of mediocre food that you order from your phone. There are a few decent bars left but not my thing. Or you can go to the worst grocery store in the world.
your loss. I live here and there’s plenty of tasty food (that I haven’t had to order from my phone since the early days of the pandemic- they’ve largely switched to self-ordering kiosks). I can always find something delicious for less than $20/person any time I don’t want to cook- granted I’m not a haute-cuisine foodie or cocktail enthusiast, just a regular poor who rarely drinks but always eats.
Would be nice if those vacancies led to lower rents so smaller businesses could move in. But landlords in Seattle seem pretty content to leave places vacant for a few years, hoping for inflation to catch up, rather than drop prices.
Vacancy tax!
San Francisco has been experimenting with that. Perhaps we should try it too.
Often part of their loan covenants involve minimum per sqft lease rates.
Would be nice if the closures meant that rents could fall and small businesses could move in. Unfortunately it feels like big landlords are more content to let properties sit vacant for years rather than lower price of admission
Vacancy tax!!!
That guy that screams in front of Victrola is still there
I’m sure he’ll be driving them under with his presence.
I hope so too. I hate to see businesses fail, especially locally owned businesses.
Like a trip to the top of the Space Needle, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery was a destination for tourists, and never was intended for Seattleites. Rather, it was a way for a multi national company to extract money from tourists while raising its profile in its home town. Think of it like a cruise ship parked on Pike St. or a downtown hotel – this was not for you. Starbucks gets a bonus as this closure pushes back against their sworn enemy, the union. When was the last time you needed a cup of coffee and thought – ‘I’ll go to the Starbucks Reserve Roastery’?
Good riddance.
Yeah good riddance to our neighbors jobs, our local economy and another reason for tourists to visit Capitol Hill.
So many people will be jobless and this destination brought so many tourists to the hill (and continue up to the pike/pine corridor.
The space is too large for one company and will sit empty for years.
Good riddance I guess? I hope all of you celebrating will hire those that no longer have work.
You can get a service industry job anytime anywhere.
Not with full benefits. How many local shops give health insurance to employees working 20 hours? Some people have medical needs and can’t just get a starter job at dominoes. It’s more than YOU.
What does Smooth care? They live in subsidized housing and enjoy coverage through Medicare or Medicaid. Service jobs. they’re re a dime a dozen. As our their employees. Right Smooth?
Really? I don’t care?
Starbucks is not the only place in town with benefits. Dick’s for example. Helper clerks at grocery stores. There’s help wanted everywhere. If the job market sucks? That’s Trump effect right?
Don’t listen to Smooth. they’re out of touch with real world and hasn’t worked in a while.
It was Utrecht for years before that but I don’t recall the art store taking up as much retail space as the Roastery. Also, Starbucks did a ton of custom construction. I hope they have security inside or else the meth/fentanyl addicted copper thieves are going to have a heyday in there.
As it says in the story,,part was oddly a car dealership
This is why we can’t have nice things.
ooh maybe we’ll get another place to buy couches…
It’ll be another boba shop with 20$ matcha drinks.
those seem to be doing well lately. suggests perhaps a fancy starbux will not be missed in the local economy
I’ve been seeing more and more of them pop up. Not just in Seattle, but across the metro area as a whole. Tacoma, Olympia, and Lacey seem to have quite a few now.
Hey, they know where their clientele live.
Coffee Tariffs are likely at play here. Expect more coffee places to close, even local shops. The price of coffee is soon to become unsustainable for many business models.
Based on what data?
None. None data.
The majority of arabica coffee is grown and exported out of Brazil. #47 unfortunately enforced a 50% tariff against Brazil because Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted and sentenced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to over 27 years in prison for his role in plotting a coup to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election. I think Brazil is waiting for our SCOTUS to weigh on the constitutionality and legality of Trump’s tariffs before suing the administration for illegally issuing those tariffs out of spite and malice.
Here are the other arabica producing countries and their tariff rates
Brazil: 50%
Colombia: Exempt (due to trade agreements)
Ethiopia: 10%
Honduras: 10%
Guatemala: 10%
Peru: 10%
Mexico: Exempt for green unroasted coffee (USMCA)
Costa Rica: 10%
Kenya: 10%
Not saying tariffs are good, but the price of beans is but 10% of the cost of producing an espresso or latte. Way more for rent, utilities, and staffing.
Yes because only the Capitol Hill Starbucks Roastery Reserve was impacted by tariffs
Yes that is true! Coffee is mad expensive! And exogenous.
truth
If the predictions that are out there about prices doubling from what they are now (and they’ve already gone up alarmingly in the past year so…a 24 ounce container of ground coffee i used to see being sold for $8.99 just one year ago is now going for $14.99…just insane!), then we may begin to see a larger societal shift away from coffee and over to another beverage. Boba and Bubble Tea seem poised to gain from this, but since many Boba shops don’t open until midday, regular tea, which places like Starbucks that open early do sell, may win the morning coffee crowd.
This is a MASSIVE MASSIVE loss – I loved having a place that stays open at night, and has cute things to look at. We went there at least once a month; it’s a wildly big loss for that corner. Loved seeing the cruise ship crowds, etc.
What a massive loss for the community.
Agreed. That place was beautiful.
Howard’s megalomanic and callous ego knows no bounds.
Howard hasn’t been the CEO for years, you should really know this living in Seattle…
However, this was Howard’s pet project….
Like people that bitch about Jeff Bezos and Amazon when Jeff hasn’t been running Amazon for years either. They just need something/someone to bitch about.
It’s Brian Niccols. I doubt Howard would be able to save that location unless he can convince other large-holding share holders to pressure Starbucks to save that location.
It’s a lost for the neighborhood as it saw foot traffic from the convention center.
Is he still alive – he might just make it to the one down in Madison park.
Howard still has shareholder power over the board, but this is thanks to former CEO of Chipotle and still current CA resident Brian Niccol, who files Howard Schultz’s private jet back and forth from his home to a remote office location in Seattle…yes that’s right…he can’t even go into the actual Starbucks Support Center in SODO because it would be around all his underlings and that’s awkward.
But what else would you expect from the US CEO with the largest pay gap between his and his employees’ salary? (as of 2024…6,666x the average employee’s salary)
*gags*
I know it’s not in line with bitching about every perceived misdeed by corporate overlords, but please do keep up. Niccol bought a house in Seattle (source), and the company also acquired a office near wherever he lives in CA so he can still go to the office when not at his home in Seattle.
Packard brand is getting revived right now by a Dutch company. Maybe they’ll want their old showroom back.
I’m not much of a coffee drinker but I’m super sorry the Roastery closed. It seemed like pretty good jobs, the workers were incredibly nice, and it attracted a lot of visitors that would spend time & money at other neighborhood joints.
If they had announced the closure like a week out they could have had the big publicity of lot of visitors lined up around the block to visit one last time. I guess the new CEO is just focused on making Starbucks as generic and dull as possible like every other US food chain.
Yes. They put a note on the plywood to let their workers know they no longer had a job? Could not have been sleazier if they tried. I will never go to Starbucks again.
They did that? If so, shameful! The employees deserved more respect than that.
With inside information to know the why: A couple of reasons, but one of which is the relentless and immense cost of operation, having to board up and repair facilities because of the Seattle/Portland self-righteous crowd. These people don’t negotiate or convince you of their views. They throw tantrums like a child, and the cost–of which I know–is incredible. Also, insurance was becoming an issue because of increased violence and potential litigious problems. Seattle deserves this loss.
Shortsightedness is why capital hill is a mess. It brought people up to the area in mass. Other businesses benefited .
oh so this closure is specific to our “self-righteous crowd” physically attacking the building, and not the huge ongoing restructuring and closure of hundreds of stores they announced? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/food/starbucks-closures-layoffs
I walk by literally every day. It is my morning walk with my dog. They have not boarded up in three years. What cost was that? The cost of plywood? Do you have any idea of the economics? Saying you have “inside information” is your biggest tell of being a big ole fibber. My wife wo rks at Starbucks Corporate. They have been hemmoraging money for several years. The lockdowns changed peoples habits, and Starbucks thrived as a habit. The European expansion was hugely expensive and a huge failure. They have shut down as many high rent places as they can in big US cities. They are virulently anti-union, and this shop voted to unionize a week ago. The new CEO spent a fortunue remodeling stores to try and change the atmosphere to one people hang out in like it was 2008 to no avail. Young people do not drink the expensive sugary drinks that they used to and propped up the revenue when coffee didn’t for a decade. To think the cost of plywood was a factor in a company with a market cap of 95 billion and 36 billion in revenue in 2024 is purposely obtuse at best. Let the grown ups talk.
Well said
It’s a world wide brand. Not just a Seattle brand. Marked is a mark. Believes what he believes and buries the facts for generalities.
Thank you!
Pull down shutters ? Hire security ?
I didn’t realize pull down shutters and security were free. What an easy solution. Of course the shutter can still be vandalized regularly, but graffiti removes itself. No cost to the business there. Why didn’t they think of these things?
They had security on the door because of the crowds it attracted…Kroger can afford shutters, so I guess a high margin biz like Starbucks could if it was a must have. Certainly cheaper than the huge building out cost.
They had security at the door likely because the crowds it attracted didn’t like the street people that the crowds attracted.
You don’t have inside information because you’d know this is completely untrue lol.
The inside info is this was cost cutting and anti-labor action. Simple as.
Yes, I’m sure that’s why the store closed without even properly notifying the staff. That’s totally a normal business practice.
Really sorry to hear that. Life in Seattle in expensive and unemployment does not account for that. I do hope that everyone is able to recovery with a better job and more lucrative opportunities.
But in another light… at least the anarchist scored a win. They hated that place.
setting aside speculation about the reasoning for this, it’s inexcusable for such a large, well-funded operation to close on such short notice that its employees didn’t even have time to grab their stuff. fired via conference call this morning and the place is already boarded up. Seriously? At least give them two weeks and let customers who like the place grab a few last dates and selfies.
The shops they are closing are all ones that have unionized staff. It’s no secret that Starbucks is a union busting company.
This place was always packed, and a lot of fun. The Instagram posts alone they got from it probably justified their costs (not to mention the merchandise and espresso martinis being sold). Brian Niccols is making some (*cough*) interesting choices…
No idea if unionization was a factor in the closing, but that place was packed every time I went in there (or just passed by). Assuming Starbucks still knows how to run a coffee shop, I can’t believe this one wasn’t profitable.
It was profitable. But it was a magnet for street people and ungrateful union employees. Now you do t have a job. Well done
Unions do not break companies. Companies break companies. Look at wages recently? Car companies for example. After they got their contracts? Other non union companies raised their wages a little bit too.
the car companies that have been bailed out repeatedly by the government (in other words, us…)? we’re shoveling subsidies to high paid auto factory folks in detroit instead of fixing our disorder in the streets from fenny zombies
It absolutely was not profitable
If Starbucks couldn’t figure out a way to make money off the massive foot traffic that shop was generating, they’re probably in the wrong business. And even if it wasn’t turning a profit, the place had incredible promotional value that should justify keeping it open anyway. It just seems ridiculous to invest tens of millions of dollars into creating a state-of-the-art showcase for your brand and then abruptly shut it down after a mere handful of years. I suspect Starbucks is not long for this world.
I could not care less about this location closing but I do care if it stays vacant for a long time- could you update us once you know more about the lease details?
Having spent $$$ on fit out, they either own the building or have a very long lease.
They’re closing because it’s an unpleasant experience to have protestors every month.
Other stores are closing because of crime and shoplifting. Wake up resident’s your neighborhood is declining
Yes, which is why other stores outside of capitol Hill and Seattle were closed too!! You sure hit the nail on the head
Classic case how woke Seattle is eating itself. Running all the companies that made it what it is out of town. I actually love seeing this happen cause you deserve it. It’s just going to get worse. When the broke gets greedy they destroy.
Explain how woke Seattle ate itself with this closing. Not word salad, not pithy phrases you learned on Reddit and Telegram. Spit some facts.
That is victim blaming. so let me this this right. You think that the employees (the people) working for the company that want a earn and make a fair wage to make cost of living is to blame instead of the billionaire and millionaires elitists that run the company ? thats rich. Meanwhile every time instead of negotiating with the Union then Starbucks shut down the stores instead in the Seattle area and then blamed it on “crime” such B.S. All over super expensive cups of magic bean water (coffee for those that need it spelled out for for you.
what is a fair wage? i used to hear $15 an hour and now our minimum wage is far beyond that. starbucks is far above minimum wage. what is fair? union extortion certainly isn’t
I work in Kirkland and they are also closing the downtown Starbucks there, and I can assure you that no part of Kirkland is woke.
They didn’t close any of the other Starbucks Reserve locations, so this has something to do with the cost of doing business in Seattle.
Yes, they absolutely did. These roastery stores were tourist attractions, but that doesn’t make them profitable. They have almost all closed, except for the few mentioned in the article. Hell, there was even one in Palm Springs, which is a completely tourist town, but it’s not a roastery anymore either. Remember Microsoft Retail stores? They were money pits too. If these exhibition stores made money, they would still be open. It’s not rocket science.
You are only partially correct. The only Starbucks locations that have ever contained actual roasteries (roasting coffee on premises for use there and for distribution) are located in NYC, Chicago, Milan, Shanghai and Tokyo. The Seattle Roastery was the sixth and has now closed but the other five roasteries remain open.
In addition, the Empire State Building and Greenwich locations in NYC sell Starbucks Reserve products and are still open. The SoDo and University locations used to be like that too (not Roasteries but still sold Starbucks Reserve) and those did close.
Palm Springs was never a roastery. It sold a mix of regular and Starbucks Reserve products and there used to be a few dozen of those type including in the US and internationally. Like you said happened to Palm Springs, those turned back into regular Starbucks or otherwise closed fully. But again, Palm Springs never roasted coffee on premises (from raw bean to roasted using the big equipment, pipes, packaging products, etc. like Seattle and other Roasteries had).
I have no information on the closures themselves nor am expressing an opinion about them, but I did want to correct the partial inaccuracies in your comment.
In the last year 2 much better places to get coffee have opened up one block from my office on Cap Hill and now I have 3 great coffee shops within a block from my work. I have absolutely no reason to ever go here. Between their mediocre expensive coffee, treating their employees like shit and a million other reasons…. I’m not sure how any of us are surprised this is happening. I’m just surprised it took this long.
I hear you, but the real problem is that society and the employees keep ganging up on employers in a time where Seattle is really looking “meh.” For job opportunities when it comes to the full time marginally above minimum wage employees. Take what you can get and fake it make it until you make it mentality is all some of our queer and trans refugees have to survive. Especially since being bullied out of school is a thing. I don’t know much about the other population. My assumption is art students and hopeful college graduate professionals who are in the “waiting room of success.” This is not a complete list of reasons why this is so damaging to the workers, but it is. It’s one less employer. A fix to societal unrest?! Maybe.
How do these CEO-types talk these massive corporations into giving them millions of dollars to simply dumb down & lower the quality of their brand? I could’ve done that for a lot less
Thats Corporate America for you. We have these brilliant business founders that build companies up then the short term thinking MBA bean counters take over and drive the companies into the ground over the long term just to have a single good earnings quarter. One day that will be Amazon.
The CEO’s and the corporation all have the ability to employ 501+ employees and seemingly abide by the federal, state and city wage and labor laws required to operate a business that can employ that amount of people. More over, coffee culture out side of fortunate big city America is a boon to the coffee farmers who can’t produce superior beans like an Ethiopian or a Bolivian (order the Bolivian if you ever see it as a pour over, and any Ethiopian or Kenyan , Brazil , Columbia. Back to
My point.) … starbucks took low quallity beans, branded the mess out of them and made them a house hold name for the middle Americans who can afford a Veranda, or a willow blond roast ( actually pretty good.) and the drip is consistent through out the U.S.A. (SF HAD THE WORST COFFEE out side of Seattle and Portland.) making partnerships with other entities creates more jobs and supports the very economy some of us are struggling to be apart of. Hell yeah I’m buying a pike place drip as a suitable option. Of course the 🚬🤠💡💡💡 to pair with said drip are hard pass for me… 🇺🇸 👻🚬☕️, like a true Seattle hipster right out in front of a vita or a Victorola 🚬🕴️☕️… but my point Starbucks’ brand is not watered down or dumbed down. It’s simply responding to an ever changing perception of who they are as a company. I mean The Forbidden City still has a Starbucks (I’ve not fact checked that.) but I mean Asia Loves the brand. I guess my real point is, I’m done being idealistic when I’m down and out need a job. I’m pretty grateful to make a pay check and live in the big city somehow. But let a ceo read the news, and I get my opinion about a job watered down by the opinion of the masses, some of whom don’t even work for them or support the brand at all. I got lost but my points in there somewhere…
I care very little about and for Starbucks–but I would love to see that space used as an Artistic venue for local sculptors and performance artists in Seattle.
Dont worry I’m sure the wreckers will be hired shortly and they’ll gut the place. Starbucks isnt going to hand this beautiful interior space to someone else.
With what money?
How about we use some of the money currently being pissed away on failed “harm reduction” drug policies that attract drug addicts from across the country?
The convention center could do something like that – it seems like is empty 90% of the time.
Even when they have events, it’s 90% empty. It’s way too big, and way too empty.
yes we definitely don’t have enough sculptors
What an excellent idea! Such a unique space should not go to waste.
What a litany of cliche comments.
This is some wild corporate gaslighting, they went from sending everyone home early for deep cleaning to announcing closure via conference call the next morning and we’re supposed to buy this statement?!?!?
“Our focus right now is on supporting partners as we work to transfer as many as possible to nearby locations and help them understand what opportunities might be available to them now and in the future as we return to growth,”
The Melrose Promenade is in trouble. Hope Terra Plata and Taylor Shellfish don’t leave. I’d wager Taylor Shellfish bolts before end of 2026.
As for evolution, the old Starbucks Roastery is a perfect location and building for an indoor pickleball space! Who do I talk to about investing?!
100% Vacancy tax/land-use tax the shit out of these moron bottom feeders who sit on land and shit on Seattle after they run their businesses into the ground.
Starbucks pays their dumbfuck Chipotle (another overrated company) CEO frat boy over $43,000 an hour and he can’t turn a profit at the HQ city toaster in the Western Hemisphere’s capitol of coffee? That asshat’s “rescue” of Starbucks is to kill off its best stuff, clear the menu of choice (replacing it with nothing) and firing employees. Dumb dick.
Whole Foods? Almost as stupid. Let these fucks pay dearly for sitting on eating-away prime properties and penalize real estate agents for not moving these properties, too. Enough of these overpaid urban blight producing, tax-destroying a-holes.
Disappointed in Starbucks claiming they were trying to transfer workers. Every single barista at this location was laid off and was told they were laid off Thursday, so claiming Starbucks was trying to transfer them is a blatant lie.