(Image: All the Best Pet Care)
The former Capitol Hill “Gaybucks” shuttered by the coffee giant in 2022 as part of a ripple of shutdowns over what it said were public safety concerns amid an ongoing labor battle will have new life as a shopping stop for the neighborhood’s fur baby families.
All the Best Pet Care has announced it is moving into the 4,000-square-foot commercial building that has stood on E Olive Way and served as a home to a string of restaurants and big chains like Boston Market and Starbucks since 1937.
Lake City Way-born All the Best is marking its third store in the Central Seattle area with the opening joining its longtime Madison Park shop and a new store in the Midtown Square development in the Central District.
“We know that something as simple as a change of diet can bring about huge improvements in the lives of our fur kids, and we want to share that knowledge with our community,” All The Best co-CEO Jim Castleberry said in the announcement.
Castleberry and All the Best also said the E Olive Way property’s increasingly rare surface parking lot was a draw, touting the 17 parking spaces across from Summit Slope Park that will be available for the shop.
“The new store will offer Capitol Hill dogs and cats the best all-natural foods, treats, toys, and accessories,” All the Best said, saying the location will also host “anesthesia-free dental cleanings and adoption events with local rescues.”
(Image: All the Best Pet Care)
Starbucks shuttered the popular cafe in 2022. CHS reported here on the political, real estate, and labor factors also behind the closure of the E Olive Way shop and a handful of other locations around the city that Starbucks claimed to be closing over crime fears.
Republican Senate challenger Tiffany Smiley infamously made the closed, boarded up Starbucks the background for a widely mocked commercial in her unsuccessful run to unseat Democratic juggernaut Patty Murray.
CHS reported here in late 2022 on the real estate listing showing monthly costs for a lease of the location weighing in at around $20,000 a month. E Olive Way.
The area is also one of the few in the city where zoning and state laws have allowed marijuana retailers to open.
Development, meanwhile, is slowly rising along E Olive Way’s curves with this eight-story mixed-use project set to eventually dig in where the old Coldwell Banker building now stands and a 106-unit mixed-use building planned for the property formerly home to Capitol Hill classics Holy Smoke, Coffee Messiah, and In the Bowl.
Late last summer, Mt. Joy, the Capitol Hill launch of a planned “pasture raised” chicken sandwich chain from prolific Capitol Hill and Seattle restaurateur Ethan Stowell and tech investor Robbie Cape, got a soft start with a food truck pop-up in the parking lot of the shuttered Starbucks. The start-up has since opened its first restaurant on 11th Ave.
The Capitol Hill All the Best store in the former E Olive Way Starbucks is set to open next summer as the growing chain reaches 18 locations and celebrates its 30th year of business.
All the Best Capitol Hill will open next year at 1600 E Olive Way. Learn more at allthebestpetcare.com.
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Great! This will be needed, especially if the mudbay on Broadway closes for redevelopment
Are they pro union or anti union? That’s the only thing the neighborhood cares about.
Hope there is a public restroom as that’s what everybody will also use it for.
oh my god can you chill for one second
Back under your bridge, troll.
Just maybe people will use it to buy pet supplies. Looking forward to some development in that dead space.
Lol, saltiest comment of the year
Oh please get outside and touch grass. You’re unsufferable.
Disappointing it’s not a third place… and yes need to know if they care about workers and have a good union
Like your other favorite?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/at-seattle-rally-sawant-says-harris-deserves-to-lose-1000-times/
Don’t agree with her but she was better than Joy and Orion
As a D3 voter, cannot agree less. Sawant’s use of the office was 100% international political theater. Orion, a 30 year community activist and 3rd generation resident, and Hollingsworth, a local dispensary owner and 3rd generation resident, both are far more invested in the actual task of trying to run Capitol Hill for the betterment of all, not just for the advancement of their politics. Sawantism thankfully seems to have (for now) run it’s course, as she’s now accusing the Socialist Alternative of embezzling funds she raised, and off doing stunts in Michigan to promote Jill Stein’s candidacy.
@Below Broadway – the Sawantistas don’t want a either a middle class 3rd generation Black lesbian or a white gay guy as their city council member who embraces and acknowledges all of D3, not just Cap Hill and homeless drug addicts.
Stein really any worse than Kamala or Trump? Two genociders? Sawant did the same thing in 2016. I prefer rent control and taxing amazon over whatever the hell Orion is doing taking money from Amazon to do as they say.
well I was hoping for something cooler but this is perfectly practical… if they’re smart they’ll turn that parking lot into a little dog park.
Now that’s a fantastic idea.
Possibly. But one of the original Dog Parks at 3rd and Blanchard became a drug dealing haven, the drug selling activity there is the defining feature of the space, not urban dog owners taking advantage of off leash fenced in area. The former SBUX location would be at serious risk of becoming a drug use zone as well, more than it already is, unless it were coupled with some kind of city-provided outreach and/or enforcement of petty crime. And Hillcrest would be a sitting duck to this activity, not unlike Dan’s Market (formerly Dan and Rey’s) is on 3rd and Bell.
As if the local dog crazies won’t do what they want anyways. Everywhere’s a dog park or off-leash park, if you don’t follow the laws or rules.
That’s true, but you can’t really say “please go to the dog park” unless there’s a nearby dog park to go to.
I wonder why the city can’t fence off the tree-canopy section of Thomas Street Park as a small dog park. Small yes but it’d be a great little stretch of land for dogs to run around in.
I’d say she is more like Washington’s mom than a juggernaut.
I hope they carry my brands my dog needs. Mud Bay stopped carrying them so I’ve had to shop online or Petco
Just what Capitol Hill needs. More dogs. 🙄
Woof!
Yay! Welcome to the neighborhood! I love Mud Bay but ABP is pretty great, too. I’ve often driven to Ballard just to buy certain things only they carry and, selfishly, I will no longer have to walk up the Hill.
There’s an All the Best on 23rd near Union.. that one is relatively new, but there’s been on in Madison Valley for decades… why go to Ballard…