Hashi Market Cupertino Opening: October 9 on Stevens Creek
October 8, 2026
October 8, 2026
Two Stevens Creek Boulevard storefronts that sat empty for years have new tenants this fall. The former Vitamin Shoppe at 20803 Stevens Creek Blvd. was vacant from 2019 until Preferred Bank opened its Silicon Valley Regional Office there. The former Sprouts Farmers Market at 20558 Stevens Creek Blvd. has been empty since 2023. At 10 a.m. on Friday, October 9, it reopens as Hashi Market, a Japanese grocery from New York. A third space, the former Le Boulanger at 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd., is lined up for Specialty's Café & Bakery.
These businesses share something. Each is using a Cupertino address as an early step into a new region, so the corridor is landing the kind of tenant that chooses where to expand. The Hashi opening also falls in the middle of Cupertino Restaurant Week, October 5 through 11.
| Address | Previous occupant | Empty since | New occupant | Status as of October 3, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20803 Stevens Creek Blvd. | The Vitamin Shoppe | 2019 | Preferred Bank | Open weekdays, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| 20558 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Sprouts Farmers Market | 2023 | Hashi Market | Grand opening October 9, 10 a.m. |
| 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Le Boulanger | Not published | Specialty's Café & Bakery | Tenant improvement plans submitted |
| 19628 Stevens Creek Blvd., Marketplace | Not published | Not published | Jingege & YaoYao | Opened late August |
| 19419 Stevens Creek Blvd. | Oren's Hummus | Closed September 11, 2026 | Not reported | Closed after final service September 11 |
The Hashi storefront sits in Crossroads Center at Stevens Creek Boulevard and South De Anza Boulevard. Sprouts opened there in September 2014 in a space that had been a PetSmart. In 2023 the Cupertino store was on a list of 11 locations Sprouts called unprofitable. Supermarket News reported that company executives said they had planned those closures back in 2020 as part of a move toward smaller stores, then postponed them during the pandemic so communities would keep their grocery access. KRON4 reports, citing Yelp, that the Cupertino store closed in April 2023.
So the box went dark because a national grocer was shrinking its store size. Nothing about the location itself drove the closure. The replacement took a while. SFGate reported the Hashi lease in February 2025 and said there was no opening timeline yet. A September 2026 preview from Silicon Valley Business Journal described the store as 21,000 square feet and said it was opening more than a year later than first planned.
SFGate reports that Hashi is owned by Takayama International Inc. Hashi calls its format a fresh-food supermarket, a mini department store, and a catering service in one. The range runs from sushi and bento, Japanese snacks, seafood, produce, and Wagyu to skincare and kitchen essentials. The chain has six stores in New York City. Cupertino is its first on the West Coast.
The order of openings is the important part. According to the East Bay Times, Hashi is looking at other Bay Area sites in Milpitas, San Mateo, and Union City, plus locations in Colorado and Massachusetts. It expects about 10 new stores between now and mid-2027. Cupertino opens before all of them. Operations director Justin Li told the Bay Area Newspaper Group that Cupertino was a natural choice. He described local customers as "knowledgeable, curious and increasingly interested in high-quality products with a clear sense of origin." He said the seafood is sourced directly from Japan and the beef comes from Hokkaido.
Japanese groceries were already available nearby. SFGate notes that Tokyo Central at 19750 Stevens Creek Blvd. is less than a mile from the new store. A chain choosing a first-in-region location that close to an established Japanese market expects demand to support both. Hashi also leans on prepared food, matcha drinks, and its department-store aisles, which gives it a different mix from a traditional grocery.
Opening day will include a ribbon-cutting, a tuna-cutting demonstration with tasting, vendor demos, prizes, and opening-weekend deals. KRON4 reports that the first 200 guests on Friday will get a mystery gift bag worth $50.
Preferred Bank's new space is 3,280 square feet. The City presents it as the bank's Silicon Valley Regional Office, so it serves as a regional base rather than a single branch. It fills one of the corridor's oldest vacancies, empty since 2019.
Specialty's Café & Bakery shows the same pattern from another direction. In May 2020 the company said pandemic conditions had wiped out its revenue and closed all 55-plus locations across California, Washington, and Illinois. Founders Dawn Sandnes and Craig Saxton reopened it with one Mountain View store on March 1, 2021, Palo Alto Online reported at the time. The Mercury News covered a second location in February 2024. In Cupertino, the company plans to take roughly 6,550 square feet at 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd. Tenant improvement plans have been submitted to the City, but no opening date has been announced. For a company rebuilding one location at a time, every new site is a deliberate choice.
Farther east, Jingege & YaoYao opened in late August in a 4,370-square-foot space at Marketplace, 19628 Stevens Creek Blvd. The restaurant serves Chinese cuisine and is open daily from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The corridor also lost a business. Oren's Hummus served its last meal at 19419 Stevens Creek Blvd. on Friday, September 11, after about a decade in Cupertino. WhatNow reported that the team said many Cupertino staff members would move to its other Bay Area locations. The Los Gatos, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Francisco restaurants are still open.
Cupertino held its first Restaurant Week in 2025 as part of the city's 70th anniversary. This year's edition runs October 5 through 11. The City's 2026–27 budget lists it as one of the City's shop-local campaigns, which shows the City plans to keep running it. The City's Restaurant Week page sends visitors to an interactive map. That map lists 12 participating restaurants with these offers:
Haidilao's late-night discount kicks in at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. That means the Hashi grand opening and a discounted late dinner both fall on October 9. The City's map data was last edited on October 2, so check the map again before you go in case a deal has changed.
Saturday, October 10, is busy elsewhere in town. Pooch Plunge runs at the Blackberry Farm pools, 21979 San Fernando Ave., from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., but the City's September 30 newsletter lists it as sold out. The Environmental Education Center at McClellan Ranch Preserve, 22221 McClellan Road, holds an open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. that day. The open houses continue every Saturday in October. One week later, on October 17, the Diwali Festival takes over Memorial Park at 21121 Stevens Creek Blvd. from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The next change to watch on this stretch is at 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd., where Specialty's has submitted tenant improvement plans for the former Le Boulanger space and has not yet announced an opening date.
Storefront turnover on a corridor like Stevens Creek is one of the details that shapes how buyers see the surrounding streets. If you'd like a confidential read on what this fall's openings mean for your own property, Christopher Fling and the Fling Yang & Associates team will prepare a valuation based on Cupertino's current market. Request Your Home Valuation.
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