University Washington Safeway
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University Washington Safeway
The Seattle "UW" Safeway #91 on Brooklyn is being replaced with a modern mixed use site store happening more frequently in tight real estate urban markets. The 26,000 square foot barrel roof store with a basement was opened in 1950. The small store has always experienced high foot traffic of college students purchasing a lot of beer, checkers at this store receive additional age identification training. A Hot Deli and Pharmacy were added to this store in the 1990s, but the Pharmacy didn't pan out and was removed. Pictures attached are from the 1990's and current.
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Re: University Washington Safeway
Sigh. I remember driving by the store on a trip to Seattle almost 20 years ago and thinking I should stop in later. Never got the chance.
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Update for University Washington Safeway, it has been demolished
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I forgot that I had this picture of the interior of store 91 from October 1982, the store was still using Sweda Power Penny registers, cigarettes were behind the checker of course
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Interesting that they didn't remove the checkstands and shelving before demolition started...seems like they could repurpose the shelving for use at other stores.explorersea wrote: ↑19 Dec 2020 11:43 Update for University Washington Safeway, it has been demolished
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I thought the same thing Super S, before the Albertsons buy out we used to keep and store checkstands all the time, I assume now the desire is to buy new for new stores and renovations going forward. Plus I don't know that Albertsons/Safeway wants to pay a vendor to store used checkstands anymore.