(Image: Pink Gorilla Games)
A classic Seattle retailer of classic video games, new gaming systems, trading cards, and toys is coming to Capitol Hill amid concerns about safety at its other stores in the city.
Pink Gorilla Games will reportedly open near the Salt and Straw ice cream shop at Pike and Boylston before the end of the year.
Cody Spencer made the announcement of the planned Capitol Hill expansion on his popular Twitch stream over the weekend, multiple viewers have informed CHS. Thanks for the tips.
We’re following up with Pink Gorilla to learn more about the company’s plans for a new Capitol Hill location.
The last remaining un-leased commercial space in the massive Pike Motorworks development Salt and Straw calls home could fit the bill with its location alongside the project’s internal plaza. A location off the street could be ideal following Spencer’s statements following an armed robbery at the original Pink Gorilla location in the International District last month. UPDATE: The new expansion will be located at 613 E Pike, Pink Gorilla says. It’s the former Le Frock consignment shop space that has stood empty since the shop’s 2020 closure during the pandemic.
“We’re now building a new additional store safer, bigger & better than ever,” Spencer said in October.
To be transparent the stores are very profitable. The robberies mean nothing financially. I have no idea the amount taken nor do I care.
In short, we will not be doing a GoFundMe despite recommendations.
We’re now building a new additional store safer, bigger & better than ever https://t.co/x7P9ldT3FE
— Cody (@DSKoopa) October 29, 2022
With its original store on S King and its U District store on University Way, Pink Gorilla celebrated its 17th anniversary earlier this year. It carries a mix of retro and new gaming gear and video games as well as valuable collectibles.
We’ll have more soon on the plans for the new Pike/Pine store.
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This is excellent news!! Since gamestop’s closure, we have nothing similar to this on the hill and I’ve been missing a convenient place to preorder games. A local game shop would be awesome and it’d be great to see a local Seattle business taking over a larger retail location too.
Yay 😃 It’s going to be next the tobacco shop near the tattoo shop (613 E Pike St) Hopefully open sometime by January 1st! (about a block down from salt and straw location. (across the street from Amazon Fresh)