Ballard PCC announces Nov. 13 opening

Meghan Walker Ballard

The Ballard PCC has announced that they’ll be open by Nov. 13.

The new store is 24,000 square feet, and will be somewhat unique compared to their other locations. For one, they’ll have a fast-casual restaurant, a first for the co-op. There will also be a rooftop deck with views of the Ballard Bridge, and a large art installation by illustrator Kyler Martz including a 16-foot-tall octopus.

The restaurant will have 25 seats, and will be focused on seafood with made-to-order dishes and local wine, beer, and cider. Some of the menu offerings will be a Fresh Northwest Seafood Cioppino, Creamy Clam Chowder with Bacon, Red Curry and Lemongrass Clams or Mussels, and a Northwest Clam Bake.

The Ballard location will also have the co-op’s popular signature deli, with fresh pizzas, a taqueria, grain bowls, and self-serve offerings with an antipasti bar, yogurt bar, hot bar with scratch-made dishes such as Moroccan Lemon Chicken and Glazed Tempeh Fajitas, and a cold bar with organic salad ingredients.

The new store (1451 N.W. 46th St) will be open to the public by 9am sharp on Wednesday, Nov. 13.

37 thoughts to “Ballard PCC announces Nov. 13 opening”

      2. elenchos2 – so what does this mean “PCC offers competitive retirement plans and free financial planning education for all staff members. Union staff receive a PCC-paid pension plan and access to 401(k) retirement plan, while nonunion staff are automatically enrolled in a 401(k) plan with a generous contribution annually from PCC.”
        From this web site:
        https://www.pccmarkets.com/about/jobs/benefits/

          1. Um, PCC is definitely union, as the posted info shows. Got any verifiable info to counter with?

          1. Well, if you’re a UFCW21 delegate why don’t you address the issue of UFCW21 trying to have workers fired for not paying union dues in order to be eligible to work when the union does ABSOLUTELY nothing for the low income workers they hold hostage?
            You guys are definitely NOT pro worker, however, you are definitely FOR taking workers wages for your own profit and to encourage political processes in your favor.
            Modern unions exist more to enrich themselves than they do to enrich the lives of their members.
            UFCW21 is a joke, or it would be if they weren’t such blatant thieves!

            edited for punctuation

          2. We are holding an open house for the union next Thursday (Nov 7) at Canlis near Queen Anne. You can come and talk this out with us and even if we still disagree you can still get a free meal.

        2. PCCMarkets – thank you for posting here on MB and thank you for being in Ballard. I am looking forward to shopping at the new store.

  2. Agreed on the brightness of the sign. It’s intrusive and obnoxious, might as well also add in flailing inflatable figures on top of that. That area is a bit of a nightmare to drive through as it is, once this opens it’ll be a horror show.

  3. Great place to stop before the barre class and taking out a second montage at Verity Credit union as I drink my vegan friendly kombucha

  4. Be great if instead of these modified strip-malls we built something beautiful and truly community-oriented like the Mercado de La Boquería or Reading Terminal or (duh) Pike Place. There are already three grocery stores in the area.

    3. You can’t build a Reading Terminal Market or a Pike Place Market. All you can do, if you’re fortunate enough to have one grow in your city, is to preserve it from the clueless parking-lots-and-skyscrapers set.

  5. It’s a shame we have so few grocery stores in Ballard.

    Great news that within the next month we will have a Target and PCC. I mean right now we are limited to just QFC, Fred Meyer, Trader Joes, Safeway, Ballard Market, New Seasons, Cash&Carry, Whole Foods (InterBay), and the other Safeway at 85th. We are almost living in a food desert.

  6. To all the whiners and bitchers here: open your very own business. Open it with a tiny un-lit sign. Open it and pay your employees $50 and hour WITH a home on the lake AND a new Corvette, every year. Open it ad expect everybody to then tell YOU how to run it, when to do it, and whom to employ. Then sit back and wait for idiots on the city council to blame YOU for area problems and tax, fee and regulate the S out of YOUR business. Against PCC? Don’t shop there. Don’t even drive close, as it may lead to a crisis. Just be tolerant and inclusive of them. You know, like we are preached + lectured to about!

  7. FWIW, PCC, the reason people are complaining about the sign is the color temperature; it’s too “cold” (i.e. on the blue side of the spectrum) for many people’s eyes-were there a way to get 2700k lighting for the sign that definitely would help. The modern shift towards LED lighting has this inherent issue baked in, unfortunately; cannot just change a bulb, set it, and forget it anymore. Dunno if this is easily doable on a commercial sign, but FYI.

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