The drawing becomes the store.
Downtown Spirits is a Warren Group wine & spirits store at 1815 7th Ave, Seattle — drawn by Best Practice Architecture, rebuilt around Amazon's Just Walk Out system, open checkout-free since August 2023. GeekWire called it "the first liquor store to use Amazon's cashierless technology." The as-built record documents every sheet of how.
Architectural elevation of the Downtown Spirits storefront on 7th Avenue drafting itself: construction lines appear first, then object ink — two-story glazing, the glass canopy with its bulb string, the entry with the Downtown Spirits sign band — and dimension callouts carry the record: established 2012, Just Walk Out entry since August 2023, as-built set by Best Practice Architecture, owner Marques Warren.
Construction lines first. Ink second. Gates last.
Keep scrolling — the linework holds.
Sheet A9.0 of the closeout package carries six color renderings of the salesfloor. The red is not a rendering flourish: the ceiling grid is powder-coated steel, item PC1 in the drawings. Scroll, and the draft becomes the rendering.
Six renderings on one sheet. One store on 7th Avenue.
The shelving is furniture-grade white oak. The checkout is invisible.
There is no checkout line at Downtown Spirits. Entry takes a credit card, a mobile wallet, or the app — membership not required. The store keeps the ledger while you shop; you pick up your bottles and walk out, and the system settles the basket.
The engineering lives inside the millwork. Sheet A7.1 details shelving built from two layers of white-oak veneer plywood, each shelf edged in solid oak with a lip that rises above the shelf line to conceal the service assembly beneath it — the technical fit-out drawn into the casework before a single bottle went up.
The record is external:
- GEEKWIRE · AUG 21, 2023
"Inside the first liquor store to use Amazon's cashierless technology" - EATER SEATTLE · AUG 14, 2023
"A Seattle Liquor Store Is Letting Customers 'Just Walk Out' With Bottles" - BEVERAGE DYNAMICS · AUG 10, 2023
"Downtown Spirits: An Alcohol Retailer Goes Checkout-Free" - MARKET WATCH · AUG 18, 2024
"Seattle's Downtown Spirits Embraces Frictionless Checkout"
Elevation of the Just Walk Out gate area traced from sheet A6.1: gate pedestals with card readers beneath the powder-coated ceiling grid; the dimension line reads Entry and Exit Gates, FOIC.
Drawn around the the technology. Built around the bottles.
Open on 7th Avenue.
Downtown Spirits has traded downtown since 2012; the checkout-free store opened in August 2023. It runs the way the sheets drew it — tap in at the gates, shop the floor, walk out. The same operating company holds Esquin Wine Merchants in SODO, est. 1969.
1994HMS Host subtenant 2004Hudson JV lease ~20 stores 2027Duty-free Downtown Spirits Esquin · SODO 2026AI-NATIVE
SOURCE: WNG OPERATING RECORDS · AS OF 2026 · WNG HAS NOT BORROWED CAPITAL FROM HUDSON