Amazon Fresh expands to Ballard
Ravenna may have won Amazon Fresh‘s neighborhood expansion vote a few weeks ago, but as we suspected, the online grocer says it will expand to Ballard, too. Starting now, residents …
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Take 5 Urban Market now open
Take 5 Urban Market on the corner of 70th & 8th is now open. We received a handful of emails from excited neighbors like Danielle: The owners are a very …
Sign goes up at Take 5 Urban Market
The sign is up out front and they’re stocking the shelves and the deli case inside Take 5 Urban Market, located at the corner of 8th Ave. and 70th St. …
Ravenna leads Amazon Fresh vote
The first results are in, and surprisingly the Ravenna neighborhood leads in the Amazon Fresh expansion vote with 37%. Ballard’s 98117 is second with 27%, Magnolia’s 98199 has 19% and …
Amazon Fresh puts Seattle expansion to vote
For the last several months, many Ballard residents have been lobbying Amazon Fresh to expand its online grocery delivery service to our neighborhood. Even the sight of an Amazon Fresh …
Top Banana closing soon for the season
Ballard’s popular fruit and produce stand, Top Banana, is expected to close for the season sometime this week. Like every year, it will soon be replaced by a Christmas tree …
Coming soon to a store near you: 20 cent bags
The Seattle City Council has just approved a 20 cent fee on disposable paper and plastic bags which will take effect Jan. 1 at local stores, including Ballard Market and …
Bag fee going to a council vote
We had quite the discussion on this story a few weeks ago, so here’s an update. The full Seattle City Council is expected to vote Monday on a proposal to charge …
Long walk to the nearest grocery store
The Seattle-King County Food Council has published a report on the neighborhoods with the least easy access to food. With the temporary disappearance of the Ballard QFC (the new Ballard …
Amazon Fresh’s response
Yesterday, we launched a campaign of sorts to convince Amazon Fresh to add Ballard to its grocery delivery zone. Today, we received this response: “We hear that you are an …
Amazon Fresh, please come to Ballard
We remember the pre-bubble days when Homegrocer came to our door, making grocery shopping an absolute breeze. So when Amazon announced a while back that it was getting into the …
Construction beginning on new Whole Foods
We noticed some heavy equipment at work on 15th Ave. just south of the Interbay driving range, and that means one thing: Whole Foods is coming soon. The 60,000+ square …