@1 Strange but true. After the signs when up saying gas was done, people started delivering flowers. Also those guys are true blue awesome, providing free parking in their lot most nights and doing minor emergency fixes for free on occasion. They rule. Just like keeping people in homes/apartments long term strengthens community ties, so do long term businesses.
I've lived in Seattle for 22 years. Spent many of them living on the Hill a few blocks from this place. Never, in all my time here, have I known one person who was ever a customer there or even considered it. There was nothing about this place that seemed to be focused on community or even looking particularly open. Let's save the crocodile tears. It's a gas station/garage. It's a waste of space in the densest part of Seattle that could be used a lot more efficiently.