The building at 9490 Silverdale Way NW has worn a lot of hats over the decades — farm market, bank, antique mall — and now it's getting one more. CS Floors, doing business as Pacific Northwest Interiors, is moving into the historic property to open a building and remodeling showroom, following the site's renovation after years rooted in Central Kitsap's agricultural, banking and antiques history.
The tenant change was first reported by Kitsap Sun, whose David Nelson covered the site's transition as part of the paper's ongoing local news coverage. The building's most recent life was as Silverdale Antiques, a fixture of Old Town Silverdale that closed out its run in the space this year. CS Floors sponsored community events during the July Whaling Days festival, where organizers announced the new showroom was coming, according to a post from Whaling Days.
A Bank Vault Hiding in Plain Sight
Before it was an antique mall, the building served as American Marine Bank, and it still holds a physical reminder of that era: a heavy steel vault that subsequent tenants chose to preserve rather than remove. Silverdale Antiques actually built the vintage vault into its retail showroom layout, according to Big Whale Consignment. It's unclear whether CS Floors plans to keep the vault as part of its new showroom design, but the building's layout has clearly outlived multiple business identities already.
The property's commercial roots go back further still. In the late 1950s, the site was home to the Co-op Super Mart, a central market for local farmers that featured regional vendors including Minder Meats, according to the Kitsap History Museum. Back then, the building was topped with a large letter “M” sign visible from the road, per the museum's account shared in a Silverdale community Facebook group.
Old Town Silverdale's Shifting Storefronts
Silverdale Antiques itself has a longer local history than just this one address. The business originally operated next door at 9536 Silverdale Way NW, in a structure built in 1947 as a Farmall tractor dealership and auto shop. It moved into the former bank building in 2007, according to Lisa Stirrett Creative Warrior Studio, which now occupies that original 1947 building after it briefly served as a logging supply store.
The parking lot at 9490 Silverdale Way NW has also carried civic weight beyond retail. For years it served as the primary gathering spot for Silverdale's annual Christmas tree lighting, drawing community caroling, performances by local elementary school students, and Santa Claus's arrival by fire truck, as documented by the Kitsap Sun in 2010.
The site hasn't been immune to the neighborhood's environmental risks, either. In December 2007, the building and neighboring commercial properties suffered major water damage when storm runoff caused Clear Creek to overflow onto Silverdale Way, with merchants reporting significantly rising floodwaters throughout the business corridor, per the same Kitsap Sun archive.
Part of a Larger Maritime Heritage District
Old Town Silverdale sits along Dyes Inlet in an area officially designated a maritime heritage zone by the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, reflecting its origins as a hub for logging, fishing and agriculture. Coast Salish communities originally used Dyes Inlet for seasonal food gathering, according to a Kitsap County planning document.
Silverdale Way NW itself remains the primary north-south arterial through Central Kitsap, linking Old Town's waterfront historic core to the Kitsap Mall commercial district and Highway 3, per county planning records. The corridor carries the bulk of local transit and passenger traffic through the area.
Growth Alongside Housing Pressure
The commercial evolution of buildings like 9490 Silverdale Way NW is unfolding against a backdrop of economic growth paired with housing strain. The Silverdale Regional Growth Center supported 8,740 jobs as of 2022, with employment concentrated heavily in services and retail, according to a 2024 Kitsap County planning document.
That job growth hasn't been matched by affordable housing. County demographic data from 2024 showed 58.8% of renters in the Silverdale Regional Growth Center were cost-burdened, with 29.8% classified as cost-burdened and 29% as severely cost-burdened, out of 1,371 total housing units counted in the area in 2022. Local officials have noted the need to increase housing density relative to the area's strong job base, per the county's own planning documents.
For now, the transformation underway at 9490 Silverdale Way NW captures the broader arc of Old Town Silverdale itself — a corridor that has moved from farm co-op to bank to antique mall, and is now poised to become a modern home-remodeling destination while still carrying physical traces, like that old steel vault, of everything that came before.
