Make room for light rail: Roosevelt QFC closure just weeks away

Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:03 pm By 7 Comments

Photo: Supafly on Flickr.

If you’re a regular shopper at the QFC on Roosevelt Way, you’ve probably noticed that the shelves are getting a little thin. Sadly, this is all in preparation for the upcoming closure of the store on May 12.

The QFC building itself will be torn down and the lot will be used as a staging area for construction on Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail Roosevelt Station. The store was originally slated to close in January, but got an extension on its lease through May.

Sound Transit has said that the impact on traffic in the area due to construction will be minimal and limited to the streets surrounding the staging area.

Here’s a video from Sound Transit showing what the QFC site will look like once construction begins:

Also a casualty of the construction: Two large oak trees on the northeast corner of the lot. Neighbors fought to save the 60-year-old “Scarlet Twins” last year, but Sound Transit has said that there’s little confidence that any attempts to move something this big could be successful.

It hasn’t yet been decided what will go into the commercial space available above the transit station once it opens. Employees from the current store will be transferred to various QFC locations around Seattle. We wish all of the QFC employees the best of luck–thanks for serving the community over the years. We’ll miss you.

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  • ravennablog

    Sound Transit folks at the 60% design meeting said that the scarlet oak wood might be able to be used in the station somehow. No specifics on that, though.

  • http://www.advicefromariskdetective.com/ Annie Searle

    Thanks to Mike and the rest of the QFC team for all the friendliness and great service over the years.

  • Portuguesprofessor

    we have been shopping at this store since it opened as the original QFC – it’s the only one that still feels like a non-Kroger QFC.  This is a travesty.

  • donnaINseattle

    Maybe Sound Transit should read the Seattle Times in order to learn how to deal with trees . . . http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017919677_treerescuer31m.html

  • Sheldon

    As a Strada 67 resident, next door to QFC, I am really going to miss QFC and all the great people that work there.

  • 123

    Have shopped there for over 25 years. :( Everything is so over-developed these days.

  • Judas Disney

    That sickens me.  Those trees would’ve been easy to plan around.  They were at the very edge of the lot.  It would’ve been a show of respect from Metro & they would’ve garnered good PR from that.  Instead, they’re a-holes.