(Images: SadĆ Room)
The Drip Tea business family’s retail aspirations have taken new shape in the heart of Pike/Pine. The SadĆ Room has emerged this summer on E Pike as the latest outlet for Drip Tea’s designer and streetwear ambitions.
The boutique is the latest incarnation of the Drip Tea shopping efforts. Its Drip Tea Market and its mix of street and secondhand fashion has been playing out at 10th and Union across from the original bubble tea shop. Continue reading
(Image: Bonito Café y Mercadito)
One of the more anticipated new Capitol Hill food and drink ventures has announced a grand opening date.
Bonito Café y Mercadito will be ready with an Espresso Tónico for you as the doors open this month at E Olive Way and Melrose with a grand opening planned for Saturday, September 14th.
CHS reported in February on the plans from Daniel and Ismael Calderon to bring the Latino cafe and shopping experience to Capitol Hill after forging the Aqui Mercado events in Pioneer Square.
“The Mercadito part pays homage to our roots of Aqui Mercado,â Ismael told CHS earlier this year. âWithin our cafe obviously weâre going to sell coffee, but our focus is helping BIPOC small businesses to have an opportunity to showcase their product and talents in a storefront environment.â Continue reading
Monday, the trial to determine if regulators can stop the merger of the nation’s two largest grocery chains began in a federal court in Portland, Oregon.
On Broadway, the company lined up to take over one of the street’s two QFC supermarkets has filed some of its first paperwork to make the transaction a reality.
The company formed by C&S Wholesale Grocers has applied to assume the liquor license for the QFC grocery store in Capitol Hill’s Harvard Market shopping center, public records show.
The filing is one of a flurry of similar filings by the company in the county and across the state as it begins the process of taking over the stores, according to the state liquor board. Continue reading
Busacca says her shop was burglarized twice in one night in July
(Image: Revival)
It has been a bad news/good news kind of summer for Broadway’s Revival vintage and fashion boutique.
Owner Ashley Busacca says worries about impending redevelopment were further soured by an early morning bout of burglary in July that damaged the shop and cost her some merchandise.
The break-ins happened as Busacca was facing the sad prospect of leaving Broadway. She had announced a July 31st final day of business after being told by her landlord it was time to close so the building could make way for planned demolition and redevelopment.
“At 3am this morning, my shop was broken into and burglarized by two people at separate time. As you can imagine, having to unexpectedly close a business with no new spaces to move last minute, and no good prospects, (yet) and then have your space completely violated, is depressing as hell,” Busacca told the CHS Facebook Group last month. Continue reading
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 weâre 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. Itâs 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
Thanks to reader Don for the picture
The days are numbered for Capitol Hill neighborhood convenience store, household goods and hardware store, and smoke shop ShopRite.
A sign has gone up on the 15th and Republican store announcing the store is closing “soon” and a closeout sale is underway. In classic ShopRite style, the sign includes multiple variations for spelling the store’s name.
“Thank you for all your support and loyalty these past years,” it begins.
CHS reported here last summer about owner Mohammad Abid’s plans as the block was lined up for eventual redevelopment that will include the demolition of the nearly 30-year-old store.
Abid has run the shop for more than 20 of its nearly 30 years of business after coming to the United States from Pakistan in 1984. He told CHS he was more likely to retire or open another store outside the city than to continue on 15th Ave E once the new redevelopment is built. Continue reading
Cupcake Royale’s top-selling cupcake, The Gay (Image: Cupcake Royale)
The exit of a Capitol Hill newsstand will make space for the return to Capitol Hill of Cupcake Royale.
The Seattle-area cupcake chain announced it is taking over the small E Pike space formerly home to Big Little News. Pike/Pine LGBTQ nightlife entrepreneur Joey Burgess and Tracy Taylor, the general manager of nearby Elliott Bay Book Company, ran the unique magazine and champagne shop for three years but even the guidance of one of the most experienced booksellers in the city and the head of a neighborhood family of bars and restaurants couldn’t make the concept stick.
The magazine and news shop closed in May. Continue reading
(Image: Woof Gang)
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
(Image: Wax On)
(Image: Hunters Capital)
When the Capitol Hilltop Apartments open to new residents on 15th Ave E this summer, the ground floor mix of commercial tenants will feel very familiar to the neighborhood.
CHS already reported on the plan for Rudy’s to jump across the street and be part of the development. Now another longtime part of 15th Ave E is signed up to be part of the mixed-use building completing construction on the site where the neighborhood’s service station once stood.
The Wax On waxing spa is making plans for a new home beneath the new Hilltop apartments, CHS has learned.
In its 25th year of business around the city, Anne Uhlir’s Wax On is the mother of the Brazilian in Seattle. Its 15th Ave E shop has been resident in the block’s 95-year-old commercial building for decades. These days, it neighbors Museum Quality Framing. The same family trust that holds the building also owns the structure home to businesses including Liberty next door.
Now Wax On is preparing for a move down the block into a newer, larger space where it will neighbor Rudy’s in a familiar neighborhood beauty mix. Continue reading
(Image: Stitches)
A fun milestone stitched together with a love for fabrics and craft snuck up on us in Pike/Pine. Capitol Hill fabric and sewing store Stitches is closed on Sunday but the shop is still celebrating 20 years of business on E Pike. You can shop online to help celebrate and enjoy their 20% off sale through Sunday:
Our 20th Anniversary Sale runs through the end of day Sunday. 20% off everything and a free gift for all orders over $50. Sale on Sunday is online only. Weâll get everything in the mail Monday. Or choose in-store pickup.
CHS stopped by 711 E Pike ten years ago to talk with owner Amy Ellsworth and help mark the store’s 10th birthday. We’ll check in for a fresh visit soon. Happy birthday, Stitches.
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