Has Gentrification Brought Dogs to the Beacon Hill Red Apple?

by Charles Mudede
I've shopped at the Red Apple on Beacon since Sound Transit's Columbia City Station and the Beacon Hill Station opened in 2009. Before that, I lived in the Central District and shopped at the Red Apple on 23rd Avenue and South Jackson Street. The former supermarket is across from the Beacon Hill Station, and has a character defined by the area's Latino and Asian residents. Black Americans defined the latter store until the day Paul Allen closed it. (His company bought the prope