(Image: Revival)

An indie fashion business is ready to take things to the next level — street level on Broadway.

Capitol Hill’s Revival has closed its shop perched above the corner of Broadway and Thomas as it prepares a new home downstairs in the space left empty by the departure of World Beads.

“It’s done really well considering all the challenges and being hidden away,” owner Ashley Busacca told CHS in August when we spoke with her about Revival’s move.

CHS also talked with Busacca last year about the vintage and fashion shop she opened on Broadway after moving to Seattle from San Francisco. “People are like ‘I live across the street and I had no idea you were here, when did you open?’ I’m like ‘six months ago!’,” she told CHS.

She is hopeful for the shop’s prospects at street level. “We’re not going to change what it is. We’re just going to expand it,” she said. The new space will allow Busacca to add art and home furnishings to her offerings.

Busacca (Image: CHS)

As for sad beaders, we don’t have much information about the exit of World Beads. Its sibling Seattle store has also shuttered and we haven’t been able to reach its Canadian-based ownership. E Pike’s Stitches — we visited the sewing and craft shop in 2014 to celebrate the fabric store’s 10th year of business on Capitol Hill — has tried to pick up some of the slack. Owner Amy Ellsworth says Stitches has increased its bead inventory. We expect to received that beaded CHS Crow sweater you’ve been promising any day now.

On Broadway, Busacca said she’s excited about the increased connection to Broadway and ready to take the good with the bad from being in the midst of the busy urban environment.

“I love Capitol Hill. I love Broadway. I live down the street. I will have been here two years in October,” she said.

She admits the growth for revival and the opportunity for a Broadway storefront have her rushing her life and business plans a bit. But with an overhauled shop space and a fresh coat of paint, Busacca is ready to make it work.

“Capitol Hill and Broadway have been amazing to me,” she said.

You can learn more and watch for an announcement of the planned mid-September re-opening at revivalshopseattle.com.