What Did This Use to Be?

Put on your Belltown history cap and take a look:

This is the Marrakesh Restaurant at 2nd & Battery. It is very yummy and quite a cool dining experience, as long as you don't mind eating with your hands. They also feature belly dancers on the weekends. Believe me, it's a very welcome part of the neighborhood. And yes, it's very pink. That's because it's the dominant color of Marrakesh. Everything's made out of pink clay. Besides that, their bazaar is large and chaotic and, when I was there (July), it was something like 120 degrees. But enough of this; I'd like to know what this place used to be. Hint: it was back in the nineties and afterwards, it was empty for a number of years.

The answer is in comments.

What Did This Use to Be?

New feature! You know, I walk around this rotten neighborhood and I'm haunted by the ghosts of the past. I see places that used to be places that used to be places and so on. Since my mind is geared towards storing useless trivial information, I think it might be cool to turn Belltown lore into something of a trivia quiz. How does that sound?

Our very first candidate, the Kushibar. I still haven't been there, but I hear that it's quite good. It's on 2nd, between Bell & Battery (this street shot is before the place opened). Have a peek:

If you're a new arrival, you'll have no idea. If you're a long-time Belltownianite, you'll probably say something like, "It was a film distribution house. What do I win?" OK, yes, it used to be a film distribution house a million years ago, just like nearly every single building on the block. I mean to find out what it was more recently. So what was it? Hint: it was kind of the opposite of a restaurant.

Scratch your heads and furrow your brows for a while. When you give up, the answer is in the comments.

And remember, those who answer correctly get nothing!