Kenmore Village Getting Some New Businesses: Coffee & Kids
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In a surprise reversal from the slow and steady near-complete exodus of local businesses from the Kenmore Village location, it would appear that someone is gearing up to open a new coffee shop at 6734 NE 181st St — the building that used to hold a Tacos Guaymas.
In addition to the exterior of the building sporting a fresh new coat of paint, whoever is moving in has also been doing some landscaping, as well as some work to spruce up the inside.
According to a pdf flyer I located on the leasing company’s website, the new business is “The Coffee Roaster.” Just what Kenmore needs, another coffee shop! Especially one that’s literally less than 500 feet from Tully’s…
Also of note, the flyer says that a new kid’s gym called “Great Play” will be opening sometime soon in the location formerly occupied by The Little Gym.
The other thing I found interesting in the leasing company’s ad for the Kenmore Village spaces is that potential tenants are being offered leases of “4 years or less.” If they’re handing out 4-year leases, that would seem to imply that development on Kenmore Village is stalled until at least 2015, despite the perennial claims that they’re just pushing things off “one more year.” Hmm…
Tags: central-kenmore, downtown, Kenmore Village
Bustling Downtown Kenmore
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Check out this video I shot of bustling downtown Kenmore last weekend.
I was lucky not to get trampled in all the excitement.
Crow Time in Downtown Kenmore
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Let’s kick things off on a relatively light note.
Here’s a video of crow time in downtown Kenmore earlier this evening. For those of you who live on the outskirts of our little village, crow time is a twice daily occurrence when thousands of crows commute to and from downtown Seattle for work. The veritable river of crows stretches as far as you can see in either direction and lasts for about half an hour.
At dawn every day the massive murder flies east to west into the big city, and at dusk they fly back to their homes in the suburbs… much like most Kenmore residents. The main difference is that the crows go in to work seven days a week, and their work day is about 15 hours long (in the summer, anyway).
Makes all of you seem a little lazy.
