Another Hardware Store Bites The Sawdust
The Seattle Times is reporting that the last hardware store downtown is in danger of getting squeezed out. Rainier Hardware apparently has some prime storefront space in the Market and the bane of independant businesses everywhere -the re-negotiation of the lease- is rearing its head.
You'll forgive Seattlest for thinking that the last hardware store downtown has been gone for years. Furthermore, we were under the impression that there weren't all that many left in the city. Chubby and Tubby anyone? That one still stings - The Aurora hardware mainstay could have at least had the decency to be replaced by a Starbucks or something. You know what's at that location now? Stupid Prices. Hardwick's on Roosevelt in the U District has to be holding on by a thread. Lot's of colorfull new development in that area recently indicates to us that Hardwick's is battling.
