Upscale grocery store Metropolitan Market to open location in north Ballard
Metropolitan Market, a boutique Seattle supermarket chain, is opening a 10th location in Crown Hill, in north Ballard, on Aug. 30.
Talk about a sign of the times.
The old Value Village thrift store in north Ballard had been empty since November 2019, just before the pandemic. The location is next to a Walgreens pharmacy and a stone's throw from a Safeway.
But now we know that a Metropolitan Market, the city's most upscale supermarket chain, is moving into that location at 8532 15th Ave. NW at the summer's end.
It will be the supermarket's 10th location.
Other locations are in View Ridge (Seattle), Queen Anne (Seattle), West Seattle, Magnolia (Seattle), Mercer Island, Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Sammamish and Kirkland.
A temporary office to recruit staff for the new grocery store went up at Northwest Market Street, at 15th Avenue NW.
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Isolde Raftery
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