Plywood coverings for the windows and the district’s city council member suddenly going off on grocery store closures does not mean the Broadway Whole Foods is being readied for a new supermarket.
What it does mean is there is new ownership for the 17-story luxury apartment building above the empty 40,000-square-foot grocery space on the edge of First Hill and Capitol Hill and new plans being put in place for what could be a long-term vacancy for space.
According to the new owners, Whole Foods still has 13 more years on its Broadway lease. And, they say, the Amazon-owned grocery giant could someday reopen there…