Hashi Market opened at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 9, at 20558 Stevens Creek Boulevard. The space had been empty since 2023. The line came first. SFGATE reported that people started lining up at 7:30 a.m., the line filled the parking lot, and about 1,700 customers had come through by the end of the day.
The vacancy is the less obvious part of the story. The building was a Sprouts Farmers Market, and the City of Cupertino's September 30 City Manager newsletter says it had been vacant since 2023. The same newsletter lists other Stevens Creek spaces in the same position, where something is finally happening after a long stretch with nothing.
Some of these storefronts were empty for years
The city's fall business updates read like a list of long-empty spaces coming back. Here they are by street number, from lowest to highest, with what the public record says about each one as of October 11, 2026.
| Address | Previous tenant | What's there now or next | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19379 Stevens Creek Blvd. and 19540 Vallco Pkwy. | Not applicable; the whole center changed hands | New ownership after a $130 million sale | Sold July 27; sale report names no tenant changes |
| 19419 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Oren's Hummus | No replacement named in the closure report | Last service September 11 |
| 19628 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Marketplace space | Jingege & YaoYao | Opened late August |
| 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Le Boulanger | Specialty's Café & Bakery | Tenant improvement plans submitted; city gives no opening date |
| 20558 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Sprouts Farmers Market, vacant since 2023 | Hashi Market | Opened October 9 |
| 20803 Stevens Creek Blvd. | The Vitamin Shoppe, vacant since 2019 | Preferred Bank regional office | Open weekdays |
| 21682 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Yummee Sandwiches, Stanley Square | EE Sushi | Announced; not confirmed open |
The longest vacancy in the table belongs to the quietest opening. Preferred Bank opened its Silicon Valley Regional Office at 20803 Stevens Creek Boulevard, a 3,280-square-foot space the city says had been empty since 2019, back when The Vitamin Shoppe moved out. It's open Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. From 2019 to this fall, that space sat dark for about seven years.
The old Sprouts was empty for about three years. In both cases, the spaces filled this fall, and the most recent records show tenants already lined up for two more.
What Hashi put in the old Sprouts
Hashi Market started in New York and has six stores in New York City. The Cupertino store is its first location on the West Coast. According to SFGATE, the store is about 20,000 square feet and focuses on imported Japanese products. That includes snacks, produce, seafood, meat, and sake, plus a large section of items from Hokkaido such as beef, rice, cheesecake, chocolate, and melons priced at $59. The store also has its own bakery and two long aisles of beauty and lifestyle products.
Palo Alto Online's first look says the store is open daily from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Along with groceries, it carries prepared food, sushi, kitchen and home goods, and skincare. Those hours run well past dinner on a stretch of the boulevard that sat dark for three years.
Head of operations Ava Liu told SFGATE why the company picked Cupertino:
"It's a central place for California. Apple is here. Everyone knows it."
She also called it "our flagship store in California." That suggests more could come. Palo Alto Online reports that the company already owns Marina Food Market in San Mateo and Marina Grocery stores in Milpitas and Union City, and hasn't decided whether to convert them to the Hashi name.
Hashi is also part of a bigger regional trend. SFGATE places it in a year of large Asian supermarket openings around the Bay Area. Tokyo Central opened in Emeryville in February and drew about 8,000 people. H Mart opened in Dublin in March with 10,000 shoppers. T&T Supermarket arrived in San Jose in June. Hashi's opening-day crowd was smaller than those. Tokyo Central opened inside the Bay Street mall, and Hashi drew its crowd to a building on Stevens Creek Boulevard that had been empty for three years.
The next two tenants are food, and neither has opened yet
Two more announced tenants are restaurants, and both are still in the planning stage.
Specialty's Café & Bakery is set to take over the former Le Boulanger at 20488 Stevens Creek Boulevard, about 6,550 square feet. The city says tenant improvement plans have been submitted. The city's update gives no opening date.
Longtime South Bay office workers will remember the name. In May 2020, Patch reported that Specialty's was closing all of its 50-plus locations, with May 19, 2020 as the last day. The announcement blamed pandemic conditions and shelter-in-place orders for wiping out revenue. CBS News Bay Area later reported that co-founder Craig Saxton and his wife bought back the brand's assets after the bankruptcy and reopened one shop in Mountain View, without the old chain's leases. If the Cupertino location opens, it would add to a brand that is being rebuilt one store at a time.
The second is EE Sushi, which the city's July 16 newsletter listed as coming to 21682 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Stanley Square, in the former Yummee Sandwiches space. That announcement didn't include an opening date, and nothing in the record confirms it has opened as of mid-October.
Turnover goes both ways
Spaces are emptying on Stevens Creek too. Oren's Hummus served its last meal at 19419 Stevens Creek Boulevard on Friday, September 11. WhatNow reported that the closure affected only the Cupertino restaurant and that its other Bay Area locations stayed open. The closure report doesn't name a replacement tenant.
Openings happen just as fast. Jingege & YaoYao opened in late August at Marketplace, 19628 Stevens Creek Boulevard, in a 4,370-square-foot space. It serves Chinese food and is open every day from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Cupertino's second annual Restaurant Week ran October 5 through 11, so Hashi's October 9 opening landed in the middle of it.
The biggest property on this part of the boulevard also changed hands. The Mercury News reported that Main Street Cupertino, about 131,000 square feet at 19379 Stevens Creek Boulevard and 19540 Vallco Parkway, sold for $130 million in documents filed July 27. The price was 3.9 percent above the site's assessed value as of January 2026. The buyer is connected to an affiliate of Roxborough Group, a San Francisco real estate investment firm, and paid for the purchase with a $91.4 million loan. The sale report names no tenant changes at Main Street.
What to watch for this fall and winter
Several things in the city's own record are still unresolved. They're listed here roughly in the order the paperwork suggests they'll move:
- Specialty's at 20488. Plans are in for review. An opening date, once announced, will show how quickly the former Le Boulanger space comes back.
- EE Sushi at Stanley Square. The tenant was announced in July. An opening would fill a smaller storefront at 21682.
- 19419 Stevens Creek. The closure report for the former Oren's space names no replacement.
- Main Street Cupertino. The new ownership's first tenant announcement would be the first sign of its plans for the center.
- Hashi's sister stores. Any conversion of the Marina markets in San Mateo, Milpitas, or Union City would show whether Cupertino was a one-off or the start of a Bay Area chain.
Hashi Market is open every day from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. at 20558 Stevens Creek Boulevard, in the building that sat empty from 2023 until last Friday.
New tenants in long-empty storefronts can change how a street feels to the people who live nearby. If you own near Stevens Creek and want to know how this fall's openings fit into your home's value, Harpreet Dhaliwal can put together a free home valuation using current Cupertino data.
