Seattle Culture
Downtown Seattle Keeps on Winning
Slew of openings highlights downtown’s appeal, vibrancy
By Rob Smith April 7, 2025
In another win for downtown Seattle, high-end men’s apparel retailer Suit Supply just opened a new store at the base of Rainier Tower.
The Dutch menswear brand is known for high-quality tailored suits at relatively affordable prices. I have a few in my closet. The company already operates a store downtown and another in Bellevue.
The vibrancy and momentum of downtown Seattle is palpable.
Consider:
• Cannonball Arts — a collaboration between Bumbershoot producer New Rising Sun and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe — will open this spring in the former Bed, Bath & Beyond space off Third Avenue.
• Reuben’s Brews — perhaps the centerpiece of the Ballard Brewery Blocks — will open its third taproom at Harbor Steps in June.
• The Railspur urban revitalization project opens in Pioneer Square this year. It features three new Renee Erickson restaurants and Hotel Westland, a boutique hotel with a rooftop bar and restaurant.
• The former Pan Pacific Seattle in South Lake Union will become 1 Hotel Seattle, a 153-room luxury hotel featuring nature-inspired finishes.
• Tidelands, an indigenous-owned art gallery and creative space, opened in downtown Seattle last fall.
• The Northwest Native Canoe Center will open a carving house celebrating Pacific Northwest canoe culture early next year.
• San Francisco menswear company Taylor Stitch will open a retail outlet in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, its first outside of the Bay Area.
• PCC Community Markets is returning to downtown with a small-format outlet after shutting a full-service store more than a year ago.
Foot traffic is also on the rise, thanks in no small part to Amazon’s return-to-office mandate. And check out the new waterfront if you haven’t already. It’s breathtakingly stunning and beautiful.
There’s a lot to like about downtown Seattle.
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