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Customers: Capitol Hill Bartell Drugs store set to join wave of closures — UPDATE

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Will the infamous messages on the Broadway Theater marquee become a thing of the past? (Image: CHS)

A wave of store closures shuttering drugstores across Seattle — and the country — will hit Capitol Hill. Customers will be left scrambling. Employees will lose their jobs.

Customers are being told Thursday they will need to move their prescriptions to another pharmacy — the entire Pike and Broadway Bartell Drugs will close in early December in the Harvard Market shopping center.

Customers also tell CHS the Rite Aid at the busy intersection of Broadway, John, and E Olive Way across from Capitol Hill Station won’t be an option — it is closing, too.

Rite Aid company officials haven’t confirmed details of the planned closures with CHS but customers say they are being informed of the impending Broadway/Pike shutdown and employees have said the Broadway Rite Aid will also be part of the closure. Continue reading →

Adana joins Capitol Hill’s still thankfully short list of permanent COVID-19 closures

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A dish at Adana

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Be prepared. The joy of “Phase 2” reopenings around Capitol Hill will be joined by the reality that many neighborhood favorites won’t be part of any recovery.

Thursday, Capitol Hill restaurateur Shota Nakajima announced that his upscale Adana at 15th and Pine will remain shuttered.

In the restaurant business, especially, “permanent” can be a loaded term but in the case of Adana and a thankfully short list so far of Capitol Hill and Central District businesses, the decision looks like a done deal.

“I signed my lease at age 25. I’ve had thousands of people come through my place called home for the last 5 years who have created what kind of restaurant it is from each employee to each guest,” Nakajima wrote in a Facebook post announcing the closure.

Last month, CHS spoke with Nakajima about his focus on a smaller, more nimble space at Taku on E Pike through the continuing COVID-19 restrictions and into whatever recovery comes next. Continue reading →