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We sometimes pop corn for popcorn at home, but it just ain’t the same as what a fine popcorn shop can make. Especially one of the finest popcorn shops we’ve ever visited: KuKuRuZa in downtown Seattle’s historic Kress Building. It helps that they’ve got a $25,000 machine (air-popped, without added oil) that’s pretty much continually popping high-quality, butterfly and mushroom (the shape, not the taste) varieties of corn at about 450 degrees. And that Popcorn Chef Robert Hicks is continually creating new flavor combinations.

Two blocks from Seattle's iconic Pike Place Market, in the basement of the historic Kress Building, Tyler Myers is trying to make history by building a 17,000-square-foot urban supermarket. He's a grocery guy from a grocery family on Whidbey Island, and he thinks he knows what his customers want: a full-service store (not just shelves of ramen and canned tuna), with fresh produce, meat, takeout.