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Article: Seattle's Pike Place Market to Lose Garden Center.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- August 16, 2002
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By Stuart Eskenazi, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 16-- On a prominent block of the Pike Place Market, a conspicuous sale is taking place. Plants, trowels, seeds -- everything is marked down. No returns, no exchanges.
After two decades occupying the building between Pine and Stewart streets, Molbak's is shuttering its Seattle Garden Center to concentrate on the company's mother-ship nursery in Woodinville.
The closure will likely end a 65-year-old tradition of having a garden store in the Market.
The move has left wistful those who view a plant-and-seed store as a link to the Market's mythical past. ...