There’s an empty storefront on Broadway. The stuffed-to-the-gills convenience store at the corner of Harrison and Broadway is out of business as of September 13 according to a paper sign hanging from its glass door. Broadway Grocery didn’t carry a lot of things you might include in the ‘grocery’ category but it was a pretty typical convenience store. Anybody going to miss it?
Used it often … way back, it was a true blue 7 – 11
So much for ‘location, location, location’.
I admit I rarely shopped here, and that QFC’s just about as easy and seemed to carry more of what was here, but I’ll miss having a store like this on north Broadway. Don’t get me wrong: I like fancy coffee shops and good restaurants (oh so many restaurants!), but there’s something nice about old-fashioned stores that just sell stuff…
What? They sold pizza? Well, sure, but you know what I mean, right?
(Burger King, Burger King, Burger King….)
I went in there on a take-out/grocery run, and even though they had wall to wall fridges full of beer and soda, they had no milk. To the back aisle of QFC for me.
I’m not going to miss it. I suppose if you wanted a wide selection of malt liquors it’ll be a loss, but I was much sadder to see The Glade (Princess Market) go.
Seriously, why would you with a 24-hour QFC across the street?
However, their glowing pizza sign never failed to make me crave a slice, sending me straight to Pagliacci’s. So maybe they’ll miss it…
too much competition, people in cap hill aren’t too fat to walk a block away to get to a cheaper store with better selection.
Seattle’s own sandwich nazi occupied the front of that store for a couple years. He was generally known to make the best lamb in pita sandwich possible. Everything homemade; unbelievably good, but you weren’t allowed to take your sandwich off premises. He wanted them eaten immediately, because he was a perfectionist. I believe Rachel Kessler reviewed it for the Stranger. The owner was from Turkey, via Germany and he went bye bye right after 9/11, supposedly deported. The owners of the store said he was in a detention facility for awhile. His food was incomparable — and I’ve done a lot of comparing.
Princess Market
What I’ll miss is the sign in the window telling people spanging to basically fuck off and leave. It was very cute. It may have already been gone for a while, though.
Someone above mentioned that this place was only good for a “wide selection of malt liquor”, but that’s not true at all. I tried to buy some 40 OZs here a few months ago, and they only sold beer. Guy told me no high-octane brew can be sold on the Hill. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I walked out empty handed.
Prior to the establishment of the Alcohol Impact Area (AIA) in November, 2006, this store was the primary supplier of cheap, high-alcohol beers to street alcoholics in the Broadway area, with all the resulting antisocial behaviors, and thus they made alot of profit on the backs of the neighborhood. After the AIA ban was in effect, they were the first to stock new, non-banned products which were even higher in alcohol content, until these new products were banned in late 2008. The AIA has been an unqualified success in many ways, as any unbiased observer would attest.
Sweet justice! I won’t miss this store at all.
Since Pizza Passion left I haven’t been into that store. Why did Pizza Passion close that location? Whenever I went there for a slice there was always a line…
…to see it go, I never went in here due to the clientele hanging around outside. I won’t miss the hood rat element they seemed to attract. This is an otherwise nice part of Broadway, and I hope the other businesses prosper.
I have friend in Federal Prison I spoke with him last week he told me that he is sharing a cell with the guy that ran that buisness “Pizza Passion” it was shut down for selling mass amounts of marijuana supplied and grown by the owner of Pizza Passion. SAD…But True!
Ella
We live 3 blocks from here and used it on the rare occasion though it was nice when they did 1 dollar any drink. we stocked up on the beer and energy drinks like mad!
Had I known about that, I might have walked in.
If I’m not mistaken, and I could be, wasn’t this the place that housed the doner kebab counter years ago? This would be around 2000, since as I recall the owner got entangled in immigration issues after 9/11. So sad. His doner kebabs were great. Very sweet gentleman too.
Let’s talk all the yummy street food mobile vendors into a rotating occupancy of this little corner. The kitchen is already there as is a window to sell from. Imagine how awesome that would be.