Nike closing downtown Seattle store
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Published 2023-01-18
Nike is following several other downtown businesses that have recently closed, including multiple Starbucks locations.
The store located at 6th Avenue and Pike Street opened in 1996.
A sign in the windows of the store posted on Tuesday read, "We look forward to serving you at Nike.com."
According to Nike's website, the next closest locations will be the Nike factory store in Bellevue, the Nike clearance store in Auburn and the Nike factory store in North Bend.
The mayor's office sent KING 5 a statement Wednesday morning in response to the Nike closure.
"As economic trends shift around retail and remote work, we must ensure downtown is a neighborhood where residents want to live and people across our city, region, and country want to visit," the mayor's office said in the statement. "This underscores the mayor's commitment and urgency toward improving public safety and revitalizing downtown as an activated, vibrant, and culturally and economically diverse neighborhood. We are continuing to develop a long-term downtown activation plan in collaboration with businesses, nonprofits, and community leaders, and that work will continue."
The mayor's office released a statement that read, in part, "As economic trends shift around retail and remote work we must ensure downtown is a neighborhood where residents want to live and people across our city, region and country want to visit."
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All Comments (21)
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Nike isn't closing a downtown Seattle store due to "online shopping and convenience" 😂
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Everybody with half a brain is moving out of Seattle
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Everyone knows it's do the shoplifting where the police are the ones handcuffs unable to enter Pursuits against anyone in a vehicle
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Nike is not closing, they are moving. They moved to the Factoria area in Bellevue. If you want to go shopping for Nike goods, you can do so in person in Bellevue - safely and with convenient parking.
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This is about the reality of downtown Seattle.
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Downtown Seattle reminds me of a partner who beats the other partner and when the other partner leaves they say hey come back I won't beat you anymore and we can make it a safe place for you to stay. Even though you're still in bed and intensive care at the ER unit.
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These closures are so gratifying to Kshama Sawant.
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Like, Los Angeles, Portland, San fransicoe, so goes Seattle.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer city!
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interesting tho, i saw a lot of traffic in Nike store at downtown seattle. Not sure why they move the business is doing good.
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Pretty soon downtown Seattle will close completely.
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Seattle is not a good place for buisness!
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But, but government handouts are not enough. Definitely defund the police.
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I only wear Nike shoes and I have always bought these shoes here at this location and I'm very sad to hear that they're closing I'm the track person who rather go into a store versus getting it online
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“Antifa”
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A new store will move in by the end of the week
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Black Shoes Matter🦾
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Let Nike close. I quit buying their stuff years ago.
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Lol.. It's not online shopping It's not "the pandemic" It's Seattle being thoroughly been brought down to a poop-hole status city.
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Good, not very welcoming when you walk in and 4 security guards are there.
