This store was built in 1987, a surprisingly early year for a mixed-use (retail, residential, and [off to the left out of view] office) development like this (which also explains the large surface parking lot, something that's extremely uncommon in mixed-use developments in Seattle). I'm particularly surprised that Safeway would build a store like this in the 80s -- I was thinking that perhaps this store wasn't built as a Safeway originally, but no, I've found old building permit documentation tracing Safeway's time here back to at least 1989.
Interesting, I wonder if this Safeway had the same interior decor as the Safeway that opened near my general area on FM 529 & Highway 6 in Houston in February 1987 and then closed by June 1987 not long before Safeway pulled out of Texas (the store closed before AppleTree's takeover of Houston's Safeways so it was never an AppleTree). It's probably one of the shortest lived Safeways around. It was quite an impressive, very late 1980s looking store with impressive displays and neon or neon-like lights. I can't remember all the details about it, but I did shop there during the brief time the store was open as a Safeway.
ReplyDeleteCool! Yeah, it probably did back then. It's hard to find anything impressive about this store today, but I'm sure that was different when it was brand new!
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