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Closure of Broadway Great Clips a reminder of big hair’s exit from Capitol Hill

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This guy has been posting photos with his Broadway Great Clips Yelp reviews over the years and we hope they are never deleted

While CHS is reporting on the growth of the new 028 Barber School on Capitol Hill, we should note the passing of a longtime part of the neighborhood’s haircutting options.

The Broadway Great Clips shut down earlier this month bringing to a close what the franchising ownership said was nearly 30 years of business in the neighborhood.

A CHS reader brought the closure to our attention: Continue reading →

028 Barber School is growing on Capitol Hill — Your head can be part of the curriculum

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This new Capitol Hill shop does more than fades and crops. It is helping create new barbers every day on 12th Ave. If you’re up for having your head be part of the course materials, you can help out by getting a $15 cut.

“The new location we recently opened is a barber school, not a barber shop,” the 028 Barber School tells CHS. “We currently operate four 028 Barber Shop locations, and this new facility is specifically designed to train aspiring barbers in the area.”

CHS reported on the new 028 project in September as the facility took over a former workout studio on 12th Ave inside the Trace Lofts building, part of continued growth for the six-year-old company and owner Bill Shin. It is the second 028 location in Seattle joining shops in Woodinville, Federal Way, and Redmond with traditional barber services focused on walk-in customers.

But the 12th Ave 028 is different. Shin is hoping to train and help grow Seattle’s haircutting skills. Continue reading →

028 Barber Shop readying Capitol Hill expansion as haircut giant Rudy’s stumbles

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028 Barber Shop currently has four locations across the Seattle area (Image: 028 Barber Shop)

A growing Seattle-area chain of barber shops is coming to Capitol Hill just as the neighborhood-born giant Rudy’s is stumbling.

A new 028 Barber Shop is in the works replacing a former workout studio on 12th Ave inside the Trace Lofts building, CHS has learned.

The growth of the small chain comes as the city’s leading provider of barber services and E Pine-born Rudy’s has stumbled under private equity-backed SoHi Brands. In Oregon and Washington, the private equity firm entrenched itself with founders behind some of the region’s most popular but financially challenged small restaurants and companies including Rudy’s. Continue reading →

15 years on 15th Ave E — Red Chair Salon still rocking as more changes come to ‘the quiet side’ of Capitol Hill

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Fifteen years on 15th Ave E makes a pretty nice headline. With the business tumult and redevelopment changes underway on the street that used to be known as the quiet side of Capitol Hill, a 15-year run is worth celebrating. From its humble beginning as a tiny, punk-rock themed beauty joint in 2009, Red Chair Salon is marking its 15th anniversary on Capitol Hill under owners Amy and Howie Sennet.

“I really can’t believe that we’ve made it 15 years. Honestly. We need to knock on everything. With as much love and dedication as we have put in it and our staff… Everyone’s had a hand in our success,” Howie Sennet said.

The two owners remain highly involved with Howie running the back end of the business, while Amy, with her background with hair styling for 25 years, works with other hairdressers in the salon.

“I thought the idea of us expanding bigger was never gonna happen. And we just got busier and had great stylists… I never imagined what we would become,” Amy said. Continue reading →

A 15th Ave E move as Rudy’s will jump across street to soon to open Capitol Hilltop development

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Now they just need to make a space for ShopRite.

City construction permits show the first commercial tenant has been lined up for the opening-soon Capitol Hilltop mixed-use building on 15th Ave E. Rudy’s Barbershop, about to be displaced by another development from Hunters Capital on the other side of the street, is making plans to join the five-story, nearly 70-unit mixed-use apartment building with underground parking for 21 vehicles that has reshaped the corner of Capitol Hill’s 15th and Mercer where the old Hilltop Service Station used to stand.

The short move up the street into a new 1,100-square-foot barbershop ten barber stations, two hairwash sinks, and a new waiting and retail area will help add some stability to the street’s coming changes.

Rudy’s current 15th Ave E location is set to be demolished to make way for a coming mixed-use project that will also replace the street’s shuttered QFC grocery. Continue reading →

With Bishops acquisition, Rudy’s now has three barbershops on its Capitol Hill home turf

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Rescued from bankruptcy by its original Pike/Pine founders, the Capitol Hill-based Rudy’s Barbershop chain is growing with the pandemic-era acquisition of fellow Pacific Northwest barbershop chain Bishops.

The deal means Rudy’s is now operating three salons in its home neighborhood including the former Bishops at 12th and Pike.

West Seattle Blog reported the ripples from the deal gracing that neighborhood with its second Rudy’s.

Like Rudy’s, Bishops has faced major pandemic challenges. The deal reportedly includes a dozen Bishops-operated locations in the Pacific Northwest including the West Seattle and 12th and Pike locations while franchised salons will operate independently. Continue reading →

‘You Look Good’ — Glossier’s revived global retail ambitions sprout in Pike/Pine

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Pike/Pine has a new 6,200-square-foot center of Flush Pink retail joining the likes of longtimers like Elliott Bay Book Co. and newcomers like Capitol Thrill.

Glossier Seattle opened last Friday with long lines of fans excited about the return of the brand’s real-world retail creations and beauty message — “You Look Good” — here on Capitol Hill.

CHS reported in July on the company’s decision to start with Seattle in its revival of global brick and mortar retail ambitions after a pandemic-forced hibernation with Capitol Hill joining plans for new stores in Los Angeles, London, and New York City. It is the strongly-backed and even more strongly hyped start-up’s return to plan to grow from its direct to customer, online roots into a new kind of retail giant — “Glossier in 3D,” the company says.

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Freed from pandemic limbo, Glossier’s new Seattle store will open on Capitol Hill this summer

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Of all the ways over the years that CHS news reporting has been confirmed, this might be our favorite. Mixed into the motley mix of wifi signals bouncing around Pike/Pine, a CHS reader noticed a new network recently joining the mix.

Glossier

The signal was true and now construction and wireless infrastructure confirm that the plan for a new Glossier showroom in the core of Pike/Pine is out of pandemic limbo and moving ahead toward a summer opening.

CHS reported in February on the plans backburnered during the COVID-19 crisis for a new 7,000-square-foot store on 10th Ave between Pine and Pike from the makeup and skincare company.

The project represents optimism for Capitol Hill’s economic reopening but also improved prospects for Glossier after the popular chain shuttered its few stores around the globe last summer and furloughed employees to wait out the COVID-19 crisis. Continue reading →

New salon and spa suite rental space on Broadway has its first customer — Pike/Pine’s Emerson Salon moving in

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A new hair and beauty venture set to open on Capitol Hill is already shaking up the neighborhood salon scene.

Emerson Salon, one of the first new Capitol Hill business CHS reported on when it opened more than a decade ago in Pike/Pine, is undergoing a shift in ownership and making a big change — leaving its longtime E Pike shopfront to be part of the new Mosaic Salon and Spa Studios on Broadway.

“Lancer and I are VERY excited to continue serving hair clients as individual service businesses on Capitol Hill inside Emerson Salon. It will stay a SAFE SPACE for LGBTQIA & BIPOC in Seattle,” D’Arcy Harrison said in the announcement of the change.

As part of the changes, Harrison said she is taking over full ownership with former co-owner Lancer Forney-McMahon staying on as a stylist with the new Emerson. Continue reading →

Vain rehomes its freak-flagship salon on Capitol Hill

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Some recent Vain color (Image: Vain)

A Seattle institution for adventurous and colorful hairstyles, and some truly legendary parties, boutique salon Vain has moved its downtown flagship location to new Capitol Hill digs on 1121 Pike Street. Cozied down between Black Sparrow Tattoo and Club Z, Vain opened for business earlier this month. The move signals the company’s rebirth of sorts from the pandemic, and a new chapter in Seattle’s coiffed counterculture.

Growing in the Belltown building left behind by the move of legendary Seattle club The Vogue to Capitol Hill, Vain was born into the city’s changing punk ethos. Vain owner Victoria Gentry remembered that neighboring businesses didn’t exactly appreciate The Vogue’s noisy shows, but with a salon, “You still get all the freaks without the noise.”

The move to Capitol Hill has been in the works for a while, Gentry said. The former location — in downtown, or Belltown, depending on who you ask — is part of 1st Ave Seattle history, an area now unrecognizable from when Vain first set up shop in the late 1990s, Gentry said.

They already had many clients from Capitol Hill, and the fact that downtown business had significantly slowed during the pandemic all factored into the decision to move. The new location is just on the other side of Boren, still within a mile of the old space for dedicated downtown and Belltown clients.

“I had already been planning on [moving] for quite a while. I had been waiting for the lease to run out to make a move. It got delayed a little bit because of COVID,” Gentry said. “Our connection to the Capitol Hill community has always been really strong. In a way it does feel like [coming home]. I’m excited to reconnect with arts groups and artists.” Continue reading →