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Seattle Police Department conducts ‘retail theft operation’ at a Capitol Hill QFC — UPDATE: $281.91

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A neighborhood public safety walk focused on Broadway and Pike last spring

Noontime shoppers inside a Capitol Hill QFC grocery store mixed with some unusual customers last Thursday.

Seattle Police detectives and East Precinct patrol officers were inside the Broadway at Pike grocery conducting “a retail theft operation.”

“There were three arrests and several deterred thefts,” SPD reports.

The operation appears to have been an unusual assignment for SPD’s General Investigations Unit. Past operations SPD has touted have focused on downtown stores or big brand merchandise. Continue reading →

Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming now open in Capitol Hill’s 2025 litter of new pet-centered businesses

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(Image: Woof Gang)

(Image: Woof Gang)

The first Pacific Northwest location of a rapidly growing dog grooming and retail franchise is now open in Capitol Hill’s Harvard Market, the first new retail tenant to open in the shopping center as it transitions from the loss of major longtime tenants at Pike and Broadway.

The opening of Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming and its “luxury spa services, gourmet treats and premium pet nutrition” is also the first since the shopping center anchored by the Broadway and Pike QFC was put on the market by its local ownership for $25 million last year.

Neighboring the center’s  other pet-focused tenant Banfield Pet Hospital, the newly opened shop offers Woof Gang-exclusive treats alongside bathing, grooming, and spa services.

This location is owned by Sanjna Mehta and her husband Anurag Gandhi. The pair has lived in Seattle for five years and found a home on Capitol Hill, embracing its vibrant roots and pet-friendly attitude. “This city really has my heart,” said Anurag. “I absolutely love Seattle, the community, the nature, and the diversity.” Continue reading →

Seattle’s first — and only — STAY OUT OF DRUG AREA ORDER issued on Capitol Hill

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A screenshot of a Seattle "STAY OUT OF DRUG AREA ORDER" for SODA Zone 4 on Capitol Hill

The Seattle Times reports that the city’s new criminal banishment zones aren’t being used by police or the justice system and only one person has so far been banned from a zone — a person arrested for drug use on Capitol Hill.

According to Seattle Municipal Court records obtained by CHS, the lone Seattle “STAY OUT OF DRUG AREA ORDER” was issued in December in a bust for smoking fentanyl outside the Harvard Market QFC.

“I observed XXX had a ‘tooter’ straw in her mouth. She had a piece of tin foil held up under the tooter straw,” the redacted SPD report on the incident reads. “Beneath the tin foil, XXX apparently had a lighter she used to ignite something on the surface of the tin foil and inhale the resulting smoke through the tooter straw.” Continue reading →

Smoky garage garbage fire clears Capitol Hill’s Harvard Market

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Thanks to reader Scott for this picture showing a smoky Broadway

Thanks to CHS reader John for the picture

Capitol Hill’s Harvard Market was evacuated Sunday after a rubbish fire in the Broadway at Pike shopping center’s parking garage.

Seattle Fire was called to the garage around 10:30 AM Sunday and found the fire being knocked down by the building’s fire suppression sprinklers. SFD said it used its hoses to finish the job.

Multiple businesses around the fire including the corner’s QFC were evacuated during the response and as SFD worked to clear smoke from the structure. There were no reported injuries.

Seattle Fire was investigating the cause.

The large response filled Broadway with emergency vehicles.

The shopping center is currently on the market, listed by its local ownership for $25 million amid an effort by city officials and business and community groups to address public safety issues centered on its block, CHS reported in September.

 

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AT&T closes store at Broadway and Pike as Harvard Market shopping center adapts to shifting Capitol Hill commercial real estate demand

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From a Harvard Market lease promotion

The company says it is simply responding to changing “shopping habits” of Seattle mobile phone consumers as the AT&T store at Pike and Broadway has been permanently closed.

“Consumer shopping habits continue to change, and we’re changing with them,” an AT&T spokesperson tells CHS. “That means serving customers where they are through the right mix of retail stores, digital channels, and our phone-based care team. In April, we opened a new store at 1504 6th Avenue in downtown Seattle. It’s less than a mile from the Pike location and is easily accessible to the public.”

AT&T says shoppers can also visit its University Village shopping center location.

“We take pride in our continued community presence and local network investments,” the spokesperson said. Continue reading →

‘Luxury spa services, gourmet treats and premium pet nutrition’ — Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming coming to Broadway

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Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming, a rapidly expanding franchise of pet food, supplies, and grooming services, is coming to Capitol Hill with promises of luxury spa days and fresh-baked treats along Broadway for the neighborhood’s booming population of fur babies.

“It’s been a fur-rific ride of rapid growth and expansion for us, and we’re pawsitively thrilled to be bringing our personalized grooming services and high-quality products to even more pet parents in these lively and vibrant cities,” a message from company CEO and fast food industry veteran Ricardo Azevedo said about the western expansion of Woof Gang with new franchise agreements rolled out in Arizona, Idaho, and Washington, according to the announcement.

“To enter three major states in such a short span of time is truly a testament to the power of our brand and our leading position in a thriving and dynamic industry,” Azevedo said in the announcement.

The chain’s Seattle expansion, part of a wave of what the company says is nearly 400 new locations in development across the country, will come in Capitol Hill’s Harvard Market shopping center above Broadway and Pike. Continue reading →

Feeling rejected, Capitol Hill? Crane’s Landing embraces its neighborhood with pho and banh mi — and good vibes

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You ordered too much (Image: Crane’s Landing)

As one of the biggest companies doing business on Capitol Hill is rejecting the neighborhood, one of the smallest is very happy, indeed, to be here.

Without advertising or even signage, people from the neighborhood have been trickling into Crane’s Landing, now perched above the busy intersection of Pike and Broadway in the Harvard Market shopping center.

“When we opened, it was word of mouth,” Chap Le said. “The people have been great.”

The new Vietnamese restaurant is doing steady business, Le says, with standards focused around pho and banh mi and a “good vibes only” attitude. Continue reading →

Chicken Factory: Living Capitol Hill’s future dreams of Korean fried chicken — and corn dogs — on every corner

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The different spices and flavors of Korean fried chicken are multitude. So are the number of Korean fried chicken joints you can now walk to around Capitol Hill.

The latest — Chicken Factory — quietly opened a few weeks back and has put the former home of the popular Marination Station back into motion for the first time since the popular counter joint shut down at the height of the pandemic in September 2020 after a decade of business above the intersection of Pike and Broadway.

Don’t let Chicken Factory’s name and its seemingly ripe for national expansion logo fool you. It’s a homegrown business from Seattle restaurateur Kim Young. The chicken is made to order and comes hot and crispy. Ownership honed its logistics with Korean dishes and drinks at Tig Kitchen and Bar in the University District. Continue reading →

Refining ramen, Ooink celebrates five years on Capitol Hill

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Chong Boon Ooi (where the extra “o” in “Ooink” comes from) is passionate about ramen. It’s clear in how he prepares it but also how he talks about it. “You can’t just add a couple ingredients and get umami, this is a process.”

The ramen joint is celebrating five years this month at their location above QFC on Broadway and Pike, which he calls an “interesting place” and why they decided to move here.

“I just love this location, the people, the nightlife. It’s a unique place.”  Although the challenges of owning a restaurant are ever present, the pandemic has forced Chong to “move forward and find a solution.”

The menu hasn’t changed much since he opened Ooink with his wife Jiaxin Wang five years ago. Chong has chosen to focus on refinement, not change.

“We still try to refine what we do and achieve better. I don’t like to create new dishes, I like to do what I do and make it better.” Continue reading →

Aloha means goodbye: Capitol Hill’s Marination Station announces permanent closure as Seattle’s catering business dries up

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Marination Station, the first foothold in what may have been Capitol Hill’s most successful blossoming of a food truck into Seattle brick and mortar street food empire, is shutting down after nearly a decade of business above Pike and Broadway.

“Our team was small and mighty as was that store,” Kamala Saxton tells CHS about the decision to permanently close the longest running fixed-place location in the Marination food and drink family.

Saxton says the Station, while known to neighbors and weekend nightlife visitors as a place for fast Hawaiian-Korean style chow, also was the company’s catering core with the busy kitchen supplying lunches for Seattle’s voracious corporate appetites. As catering opportunity has all but disappeared in the city, Saxton said it didn’t make sense to keep the Station open. Continue reading →