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11th and Pine was the battleground for some of the most intense clashes between police and demonstrators during the CHOP occupied protest. Four years later, it will be the turf of two warriors of the fast-casual restaurant start-up struggle.
Salad chain Sweetgreen has made a splashy start of its preparations to finally open on Capitol Hill with signage and posters plastered across the corner’s windows some three years after CHS first reported its plans for 11th and Pine.
The new Sweetgreen will neighbor Mt. Joy, the first location in a planned “pasture raised” chicken sandwich chain from prolific Capitol Hill and Seattle restaurateur Ethan Stowell and tech investor Robbie Cape.
The coming soon Sweetgreen opening will be part of the growing chain’s expansion around the Seattle area.
Founded in 2007, Culver City-founded Sweetgreen has opened more than 200 restaurants around a juiced-up salad bar concept and a mission of “scratch” ingredients, a “strong food ethos and investment in local communities,” and social and environmental campaigns. It is currently a Wall Street darling as shares have climbed thanks to surging sales.
It also caused a stir with fans last week as it announced it would add steak to its menu while also trying to reach a goal of being “climate neutral” by 2027.
Sweetgreen will now soon put the ground floor of the preservation-boosted, seven-story Sunset Electric development back into motion replacing Stout, a pub concept that stretched out into a full 5,000 square feet at the corner but didn’t last five years.
As for CHOP, memorials to the violence and remembrances of some of those killed by police than inspired the demonstrations have long since been removed from the building.
Sweetgreen will open this summer at 1530 11th Ave. Learn more at comingsoon.sweetgreen.com.
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Yes. Also battlegrounds of intense battles between indigenous people and pioneers. Pioneers who eventually polluted and contaminated the soil in all of Auto-Row, leaving developers and the City to pull wool over The People’s eyes with hip salads honoring a time where gunshots rang out, blood spilled and a neighborhood was destroyed for children who live there & the city is still discriminatory towards many. Not exactly victory.
Can you point to a reference to the ‘intense battles between indigenous peoples and pioneers’ on Capitol Hill? This is a part of history I had never heard of. In fact Chief Sealth’s daughter warned the settlers of several impending native tribal attacks, allowing them to survive multiple attempts to kill them…
Did you always ask people to do your homework for you?
https://duwamishhistory.com/blog/f/herrings-house-village-burned-1893
Not Capitol Hill.
Try reading comprehension, this was the last of many long houses burned to the ground or left vacant from threats of violence… There were people living all over this area before there was even a notion of a Capitol Hill neighborhood…
Destructive capitalist white people aside, are we supposed to honor the gunshots of yesteryear somehow in your eyes?
It’s 2024… come on
At what point can we talk about the exciting and current things happening in Capitol Hill without having to reference CHOP?
CHOP free! https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/05/with-a-new-home-in-the-city-kokos-now-open-on-capitol-hill/
CHOP was good, get over it
Ahhh yes; leave it this clown to claim that CHOP, which arose in response to the murder of a Black man and was only shut down after two Black youths were shot (one killed) by CHOP “security,” was “good.”
Derek, you are morally bankrupt person. Seek help.
So all the black teens killed outside of CHOP before and after its existence are the fault of…who?
You don’t have an acceptable explanation for an entirely preventable death in a zone that’s STATED GOAL was to protect Black lives so you’re choosing to go with, “the cops have killed WAAAAAY more Black kids than our side has”?
10/10 Whataboutism.
Another chain. At least it’s not fried chicken.
It’s a shame their food only comes in disposable packaging that leeches toxic “forever chemicals” — despite their claims of having phased it out: https://www.mamavation.com/food/sweetgreen-pfas-forever-chemical-results.html
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dangerous-pfas-chemicals-are-in-your-food-packaging-a3786252074/
Your article says summer but doesn’t that picture signage say Fall 2024?
Sweetgreen was founded in DC.