Work is underway on Boo Han Market’s third location at 32945 Pacific Highway S. in Federal Way. Jae Han, the company’s second-generation owner-operator, told What Now Seattle that he expects the store to open near the end of 2026, although the construction schedule could change.
The new market will occupy an 18,870-square-foot space previously used by Grocery Outlet, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal.
The Federal Way project comes more than five decades after Boo Han moved from South Korea to Lakewood in 1973. His family settled in a 400-square-foot home along Lakeview. Four years later, Boo Han and his wife began making tofu and rice cakes in a nearby garage he had built…