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A property currently home to an empty warehouse on the backside of Pike/Pine will be transformed into a Melrose Market-like complex of restaurants, bars and shopping, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported this week:
A group led by the Seattle attorney who launched The Crocodile Café in Belltown has plans to turn an old warehouse on Capitol Hill into bars, restaurants and retail space.
The building owner, Cliff Moon of Lynnwood, said the bar, restaurant and retail space are planned by attorney Jerry Everard, and Alex Rosenast, who’s one of the owners of the Capitol Hill pool hall called the Garage. The warehouse at 952 E. Seneca St. stands next to the Garage.
The project came to light thanks to progress on the application to transition the property from a warehouse to restaurant use. Longtime landowner Cliff Moon will be part of a potentially lucrative venture thanks to his 1986 investment of $334,000 for the property that at one time was home to The File Box business. Moon said the development plan is to return the warehouse to its original look, the PSBJ reported.
No tentants have been announced and the project’s permits are still in the preliminary phases, according to city records.
We’ll have more about the venture soon.
Wonderful, more $18 sandwich shops and pricey boutiques!
There are plenty of places for cheap eats. Are you bemoaning the fact that we won’t have a file storage facility on Capitol Hill? Or are you just against the fact that a property owner wants to improve their property and make improvements?
I’m fine with the owner “improving” his property, but this seems a little too out of the way for this concept. I think housing (or hotel) would have been a better use of the space. We’ll see, I guess.
I will have a hard time forgetting the fact that the owner of the Garage sold the block of Pine that housed Kincora, Manray, Bimbo’s, Cha Cha and Winner’s Circle. It’s certainly his right to do with his property what he sees fit just as it is my right to avoid every establishment he has a financial interest in.
“Moon said the development plan is to return the warehouse to its original look”
God knows if there’s one thing warehouses are known for it it’s for their attractiveness. ;D
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