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There aren’t many pockets of Pike/Pine left to redevelop.
Now, the 120-year-old building home to Club Z — one of the last bathhouses left in Seattle — is back on the market.
“A rare opportunity sits along the vibrant Pike-Pine corridor, where solid underlying infrastructure and an exceptional urban location open the door to limitless possibilities,” the listing (PDF) reads.:
Just steps from Capitol Hill’s energy and minutes from downtown Seattle core, this well-positioned building offers flexible framework ideal for transformation—whether envisioned as mixed-use, hotel, hostel, artist loft, creatively reimagined workplace or membership based private club per current zoning.
CHS reported here in 2018 as a Capitol Hill real estate investor purchased the one-time hotel on Pike between Minor and Boren for $2.9 million. The property is priced to move — currently listed at $2.35 million.
“The property offers strong infrastructure and flexible value-add potential for mixed-use, hospitality, residential, creative office, or private club use, with the option to purchase the existing business, retain it as a tenant, or deliver the building vacant at closing,” the seller notes.
The club is currently owned by a partnership including the property’s owner and longtime manager Carlos Adams, according to state filings.
The property was being planned for demolition and development in the early 2000s when a project to create a multi-story condominium development began the permitting process but never made it past planning phases. The property was held by the same real estate investor who purchased it in the 1970s until its 2018 sale.
The three-story 1117 Pike building is wrapped on three sides by the taller Wintonia apartments owned by Catholic Housing Services. Toward downtown across an alley that would complicate any potential combining of the parcels, the Club Z building also neighbors the Salvation Army property and its surface parking lot, another Pike/Pine property that was once considered a prime target for redevelopment.
The 1906-built hotel building and former grocery has been home to a bathhouse for decades. Today known as Club Z, the sex club is one of the few left in the city and one of only two left on Capitol Hill. Steamworks continues to operate nearby on Summit Ave. Others, like 10th Ave’s Basic Plumbing made way for new things long ago.
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