Here’s the first thing to know about the new PCC opening at Green Lake 0n Wednesday:
Free parking.
Shoppers at the Greenlake Village PCC, 450 N.E. 71st St., will have 90 minutes of free validated underground parking in 100 stalls at the village development.
Here’s the second thing: It’s very close.
The store – the largest PCC to date, with 130 employees – is right at a mile down Fifth Avenue Northeast from the center of Maple Leaf. (From the Maple Leaf Reservoir Park, 0.8 miles.)
Also, it’s open from 6 a.m. until midnight. Every day.
On Wednesday the Greenlake Village PCC will open at 9 a.m., after a 15-minute ribbon-cutting ceremony. That day it will donate 50 cents to North Helpline for every social media check-in on Facebook, Foursquare and Yelp, and going forward will offer continuing support to the food bank.
It’s PCC’s 10th store. (The existing PCC at Green Lake, re-branded Greenlake Aurora PCC, will remain open at 7504 Aurora Ave. N. It, too, is open from 6 a.m. to midnight.)
The new 27,000-square-foot store is at the site of the old Vitamilk Dairy, which operated there for 63 years. The families that owned the dairy still own the more than 3-acre property where the new Green Lake Village development is opening. (Yep, it’s the Greenlake PCC in the Green Lake Village.)
The development is mixed-use, with residential, retail and open public space. Last week it appeared only a yoga studio was operating; an Italian restaurant, Lucia, is to open in July.
During PCC’s opening week there, several special events are planned:
From PCC Natural Markets:
* Tastes of PCC. A variety of fresh, delicious PCC food will be sampled from Wednesday through Sunday.
* Snap, share, tag! Snap a photo while shopping at the new store, share it on social media and tag it with #iShopPCCGV. The most liked, commented and shared photos from June 4 through June 8 are eligible to win either a $100, $75, $50 or $25 PCC gift card.
* Become a PCC member. Stop by the PCC Membership Table, find out about the benefits of being a PCC member, and take advantage of special incentives to join PCC offered only during the Greenlake Village opening celebration. A lifetime membership is only $60, plus a $2 handling fee. You can pay in quarterly installments and your PCC membership is fully refundable at any time.
* PCC Tastemobile. Look for PCC’s colorful new sampling and cooking demonstration vehicle for taking food and fun on the road.
More store details from PCC:
The new store will offer a full-line of natural and organic grocery products, as well as a wide variety of
prepared foods and grab ‘n go deli items made fresh daily and on-site, including pizza, smoothies, espresso drinks, and salad, soup and hot food bar choices. Several new local suppliers and more than 500 new products being introduced to PCC shoppers at the new store soon will be offered at other PCC locations.
The store itself embodies a number of environmentally-responsible features to minimize its carbon footprint, yet maximize the shopping ambience.
King County will have the say as to what goes on there. They own the parcel.
I’ve been told it is a Wine Beer and More, or some such liquor purveyor.
My understanding of the light rail station is that they are looking at three options with differing densities of development, public space, parking, etc. around the terminus. Urban Design Framework:
http://www.seattle.gov/DPD/cs/groups/pan/@pan/documents/web_informational/p2127183.pdf
Can’t find a thing about the B & R location. I was wondering myself, it seems like such a small lot. As far as Trader Joes there was some talk one might go into the new Wallace construction on Northgate Way but Kevin is keeping pretty quiet about what the anchor store might be.
What new development? Only thing on the books is King County wants to turn half of the P&R in to TOD. That’d have to be a really tiny TJ’s.
San Marco saw the writing on the wall. Have watched with interest over many years the site transition from Vitamilk, huge hole, present development. What is going in at the old Baskin Robbins Greenlake?
There is still a possibility of a Trader Joe’s at Northgate in the development planned for that area when rail finally gets there, 2021?
We are getting another mega liquor store at 825 NE Northgate Way, apparently. We are not under served now, but many are over served. Privatization did nothing for me.
Is it legal to panhandle while standing in the median of a major thoroughfare? Witness Northgate Way at 5th Avenue NE. It is dangerous, distracting and possibly illegal.
I have been waiting…so excited!