What is…

9th Avenue

Two things go by the name. The street between Pike and Pine, and the 9th Avenue Market, the shops and restaurants of the convention center's Summit.

Updated November 10, 2026.

A view down 9th Avenue at dusk with a banner reading Pop-Up Market every Thursday night from 5pm-8pm all August long, food trucks and tables on both sides, and large painted circles on the pavement
The street, 9th Avenue between Pike and Pine, during Market at the Marquee in August 2026.

1. The street

It's the one block of 9th between Pike and Pine, right by the Paramount and the Summit. Most of the time it's just a street.

They close it off for big events. PAX and Nintendo Live got a beer garden and food trucks out here in 2023. Last summer the convention center shut it for a few weeks and ran Market at the Marquee, a Thursday night market, with Seattle Theatre Group. There were some issues, and it made the news (Ninth Avenue Freeze-Out). It's back open now.

Driving? Check SDOT for closures.

2. The 9th Avenue Market

The other 9th Avenue is the 9th Avenue Market. That's what the convention center calls the shops and restaurants in the Summit, at 900 Pine.

Inside there's Bombo, an Italian restaurant, and a coffeehouse going in across from it, due late February 2027. Name to come.

Outside, halfway up the block on Pine: Monorail Espresso, Piroshky Piroshky and Pike Brewing.

More on the building in What is the Summit?, and on what the convention center is planning in What is the master plan?

Sources: SCC, "SCC Campus" page (seattlecc.com/scc-campus), read November 6, 2026; SCC, "Seattle Convention Center Is Activating 9th Avenue," July 21, 2026 (seattlecc.com/seattle-convention-center-is-activating-9th-avenue/); SCC, "9th Avenue Reopening and Safety Update" (posted September 18, 2026, with updates through September 23; page read October 5, 2026) and its attachment, Transpo Group, "9th Avenue – Preliminary Transportation Review," July 8, 2026; the Dispatch, "Ninth Avenue Freeze-Out" (September 19, 2026); SCC Board Policy 5, Free Speech, and Pine Street Group's management proposal to SCC ("Selected Retail Leasing Transactions"), both obtained through public-records requests; photographs of the October 27, 2026 board slides, taken from the public seats; the author's visits to the block. Every date above can be checked against them.

Ivan Schneider is the founding editor of the Convention City Dispatch.

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