The barista pulling shots at 3400 Phinney Ave. N. this fall will be working inside a building that once housed 60 streetcars, then brewed Redhook Ale, then made organic chocolate for two decades.

Now it's getting four new tenants at once.

Here Today Brewery & Kitchen, the waterfront brewery founded by Chris Elford, plans to open three concepts in the 32,000-square-foot former Theo Chocolate building in Fremont: Good Bones Coffee, a cafe; Glitter Paw Lounge, a taproom; and Marigolds, a cocktail and oyster bar, according to My Ballard.

A fourth tenant, Muddy Goose, will offer pottery classes and studio space starting in October.

East Seattle Partners, which owns the landmark building, is planning to add as many as six total tenants to the space, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported Tuesday, Aug. 18, calling the leases "a milestone in plans to transform the 121-year-old Seattle landmark into a multi-tenant destination."

Elford is no stranger to high-profile Seattle openings. He previously ran No Anchor, the Belltown beer bar that earned two James Beard Award nominations, and launched Here Today's waterfront taproom and restaurant at 2815 Elliott Ave. in fall 2022.

When that brewery opened, Elford told the Washington Beer Blog it was "the culmination of a decades-long love affair with quality beer" after opening beer bars in New York, Richmond, Va., and Seattle.

The Fremont building has a lineage few Seattle commercial spaces can match. Boston engineering firm Stone & Webster built it in 1905 as a carbarn for the city's streetcar system. The last streetcar rolled in on April 13, 1941. The U.S. Army used it for storage during World War II, and the Seattle Disposal Company housed garbage trucks there for nearly 40 years.

Redhook Ale Brewery moved in in 1988, operating its Trolleyman pub until 1998. Theo Chocolate took over in 2006, drawing roughly 60,000 factory-tour visitors a year before its 2023 merger with American Licorice Company shuttered the manufacturing operation. The retail store closed Feb. 16, 2025. The city designated the building a Seattle Landmark on Sept. 20, 1989.

The new tenants arrive as the Fremont and Phinney corridor absorbs significant commercial churn. Purple Cafe and Wine Bar on Stone Way closed Aug. 1. Love Lurra is set to close Sunday, Aug. 23. At least eight new independent businesses have opened in the corridor since June, but the Theo building's vacancy left a 32,000-square-foot gap in the neighborhood's commercial corridor.

No specific opening dates for Good Bones Coffee, Glitter Paw Lounge or Marigolds have been announced beyond "fall 2026." Muddy Goose targets October. Two additional tenant slots remain unfilled.