Sea Hive Station — Local services in San Diego

I am in love with this type of shopping experience! I already frequent a few of San Diego's small businesses and multi-vendor shopping destinations. This is just one huge space, filled with local vendors, beautiful handmade items and lots of great vintage! It's a very thoughtfully-curated space, which is saying a lot for this enormous building. Upon entering, the beautiful red hot rod and cool vintage motorbike caught my eye. The staff are very friendly and attentive.

Sea Hive Station is brand new and located at the former Ace Hardware space in Liberty Station (next door to Slater's 50/50). There is a huge parking lot in front and there is no shortage of parking. The space is filled with 100+ indoor vendor spaces that are curated to perfection. Many seasoned vintage collectors make up the bulk of vendors and they have lots of beautiful offerings. There is handmade jewelry, vintage furniture, vintage clothing, vintage housewares, new clothing, home goods, bath, body and wellness products, accessories, knickknacks & trinkets, gift items, things for children, plants & outdoor goods in the outdoor garden area, a mini market with delicious packaged food items and amazing ice cream sandwiches, plus they are going to do a monthly outdoor market! The flyer at checkout had August 8th as the first market.

This brand new shopping destination is located steps away from Liberty Public Market and there's plenty of FREE parking! It's a great place to get gifts for anyone and for any occasion. You could spend the day grabbing something to eat at Liberty Public Market or one of the local restaurants, shopping, spending time outside or in the park, walking, dining for breakfast, lunch or dinner and grabbing a drink or seeing a movie. Yep, there's THAT much to do in this old military training facility, turned business + arts district!

*NOTE: There are lots of activities and other businesses within the property. It has many outdoor spaces to roam or relax in and it's a great place to hang with...

Edited to add that I won’t be returning to Sea Hive as I just had the same experience being followed around again with my mother in law. This place is unhinged.

I love Sea Hive but the shoplifting policy for staff is CREEPY AND UNCOMFORTABLE for shoppers. I was so very disappointed in my last 3 visits here that it warranted a Google review. Customer service here is severely lacking and as stated before, the shoplifting policy for staff is CREEPY AND UNCOMFORTABLE for shoppers. No one wants to feel like they are being stalked by staff, which is how walking into this Sea Hive is like.

I live near by this location and frequently go on walks and will wander around Sea Hive as a pit stop before I head back home. The last 2 times I’ve wandered around the store I’ve noticed staff following me around but chalked it up to me just being paranoid.

I brought my sister and her 2 nieces to show off my favorite vintage market while they visited SD, during their side walk sale they do every few weeks. My 2 nieces were inside looking at things, while my sister and I were looking at stuff outside. My niece calls us and says staff is following her around and she “feels weird” about it. My sister and I go in to be with her and sure enough around every corner, between every rack of vintage clothes there was someone pretending to fold clothes or dust an empty corner. It made me and my family SO UNCOMFORTABLE. It was incredibly nerve racking.

I’ve honestly spent thousands of dollars in this place because I’m a sucker for cute stuff and I live 5 minutes away and I LIVE this store. So I can’t begin to tell you how upset and embarrassed I was to experience this. I had talked this store up to my sister and then to have us all followed by staff, making us feel completely uncomfortable, was wildly disappointing. Customer service is SEVERELY LACKING here and the shoplifting policy for staff is creepy and uncomfortable...

I have never written a review in my life but here we go. I went into this sea hive location the other day, as I’ve only had amazing experiences at the Oceanside location. The extremely poor service at this location is the reason I will never step foot again. From the moment I walked in the woman at the counter, poala, made this experience extremely uncomfortable. I wish I was over exaggerating when I say she rolled her eyes when we walked in. I noticed the unwelcoming vibe immediately but chose to ignore it. When we needed help trying on rings in locked cases, she made us say which box we intended to try on. My friend pointed out that each finger is a different size, so hard to say exactly which one. And in reality, it didn’t matter which box we intended to try on, she didn’t take them out to the counter or anything, she just stood there staring at us. She explained she needed to watch us, fine company policy, but she literally stood in front of the case, practically breathing down our necks staring at us. Obviously if we were to “steal” a ring you would notice it missing…so please allow the costumers to be able to try on rings without feeling so uncomfortable about it. I wanted to try on another ring in a different case, but she ignored me when I asked first, so I had to walk over to her as she’s trying on the rings herself, to get her attention. Again, an eye roll and an unwelcoming saunter over to help. I work in costumer service and I understand annoying or rude guests that sometimes warrant a response. However, I’m racking my brain as to why I was treated so poorly as I did nothing but ask for help. sometimes people have bad days but this woman didn’t seem to have a bad day, she seemed to enjoy being rude and entitled to us. Extremely disappointed and frankly entirely put off by that...