Starbucks announced it has shut down its famous Pike Place Market location on 1st and Pike. Is it really that big a deal considering downtown Seattle’s rampant crime issues? Jake Skorheim and ...

Seattle’s Pike Place Market will maintain its car-free program through the rest of 2025, lasting until next spring.

RELATED: “If he’s turned other places around, hopefully he can get Starbucks back,” Olesya Bishop said, who works across the street from the now closed 1st and Pike location.

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Immediately east of Pike Place Market, at 102 Pike St. on First Avenue, Starbucks said last year that it was “temporarily” closing that location — not to be confused with its historic old ...

Back in July, Starbucks “temporarily” closed its store just east of and outside Pike Place Market — not the historic old location inside the market, so beloved by selfie-seeking tourists.

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The location would have been at 102 Pike Street, which formerly housed a Starbucks. The plans indicated Salt and Straw planned to adapt the 2,453 square-foot space into a take-out only ice cream shop.

Pike Place Market is going car free. Kind of. Beginning Wednesday, the 117-year-old city icon and tourist draw will limit what type of traffic can access the Market at First Avenue and Pike Street.