<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0H3NCr_0wFpNHxv00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0H3NCr_0wFpNHxv00" width="1080" height="1350" ></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1cxjgo_0wFpNHxv00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1cxjgo_0wFpNHxv00" width="1080" height="1350" ></figure>Seattle’s proposed new 20-year zoning plan that would scratch the surface of increasing density on the city’s most residential streets includes a proposal that would make it easier to open corner markets across the city. A new business coming to Capitol Hill’s already densely packed Broadway won’t have to wait for any of that. It won’t even be located on a corner.Plans are underway for Neighborhood Market to open a new small grocery store on Capitol Hill in the Hollywood Lofts development next to Dick’s Drive-in.“Neighborhood Market is a community-based convenience store expanding its presence in Seattle, Washington,” one permit filing for the new project reads. “Our original store is in Renton and we are looking to open another one in Seattle.”The first Neighborhood Market opened earlier this year.The new Capitol Hill project is coming together in the redeveloped building in the 100 block of Broadway E in a space once home to one of the street’s two Zoom Care clinics. The one-time Del Teet furniture building was designed by Frederick Anhalt long before a preservation incentive-boosted overhaul by neighborhood real estate investor Ron Amundson converted it to mixed-use in the last decade. Capitol Hill’s location of the Hollywood Video chain shuttered suddenly there in 2009. The new version of the building includes the chain’s old neon sign.The incoming grocery market will have neighbors. Currently, the Hollywood Lofts building is home to the Capitol Hill location of the Don’t Yell At Me bubble tea chain that opened there in late 2022.The 2,424-square-foot space has been empty since Zoom Care’s exit and listed for $38/square foot per month year rent plus building expenses. While the company announced the expansion a month ago, the new market won’t necessarily be a quick turnaround. Part of moving in will be undoing the light infrastructure of the short-lived minute clinic to give the space a renewed, open retail layout.Neighborhood Market carries convenience store essentials like chips and beer, plus a few grocery basics and makes a “one-stop destination for convenience, snacks, and everyday essentials.”While CHS has reported on plenty of convenience stores closing and making way for new development, new quick shops opening are a little more rare. With the slow retreat of service stations and grocery chains from Central Seattle and continued financial turmoil for large pharmacy chains like Rite Aid and Walgreens, demand for the convenience stores might be a growing market opportunity.On some corners of the city, a more craft approach to the cornershop has taken hold including Cone and Steiner which currently stands as a two-location grocery chain after its 19th Ave E start.Meanwhile, across the street from the coming new Neighborhood Market, year of anticipation for the arrival of a new H Mart above Capitol Hill Station were answered by that company’s “urban convenience” store concept M2M which debuted on Broadway in 2022.Neighborhood Market is coming to 127 Broadway E. Learn more at @neighborhoodmarket_renton.HELP KEEP CHS PAYWALL-FREESubscribe to CHS to help us hire writers and photographers to cover the neighborhood. CHS is a pay what you can community news site with no required sign-in or paywall. To stay that way, we need you. Become a subscriber to help us cover the neighborhood for as little as $5 a month. </div></body>

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New Broadway Neighborhood Market joining mix of Capitol Hill convenience shops

Seattle’s proposed new 20-year zoning plan that would scratch the surface of increasing density on the city’s most residential streets includes a proposal that would make it easier to open corner markets across the city. A new business coming to Capitol Hill’s already densely packed Broadway won’t have to wait for any of that. It won’t even be located on a corner.