On July 15th, The Seattle Department of Planning and Development will be holding a design review meeting to consider a permit application to demolish the building at 2100 N. 45th St, presently housing a shuttered Tully’s, Radiant Medspa and the Chinese restaurant / dive bar Moon Temple. The plan calls for the Velmeir Companies to build “a one story commercial structure with mezzanene [sic] , containing 11,076 sq ft. of retail and accessory spaces, with surface parking for 25 vehicles”.
Curbed notes that the building was built in 1929. In more recent years, neighbors have complained about a rat problem coming from the dumpsters in back.
Changes are a-comin’, people.
(Photo courtesy of Google Maps. Tip courtesy of Janna Lee.)
I thought CVS was going into the old Tully’s space, which was disappointing. I wonder what this means for that plan.
I think it means they’re knocking down the whole building to build a CVS.
If those three buildings turn into a giant CVS, then this neighborhood is officially a goner.
A single-story commercial building at one of the most vibrant intersections in Wallingford? This isn’t the suburbs, and this design sounds totally inappropriate for the site. Check out the website of the developer–they seem to do nothing but suburban big box and fast food. If this development happens, it will be an embarrassment to the neighborhood.
well, it is conjecture so far. however, the end of appreciating beign a small neighborhood has already come. Money buys space, air, views and replaces them with cement buildings with less than ideal parking for customers and residents and if this is a CVS- selling useless items made of plastic and competing with our friendlu bartels and that Pharmica place.
It’s such a lovely building…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo (Moon Temple)
(Wait, Moon Temple has a restaurant? Find out something new every day…)
Sure, the neighborhood’s a goner. It hasn’t been all that lively for years, and now there’s a stampede out. Notably, out to Fremont, because that’s where it’s happening. Not-a-Number split for Fremont, Joule to lower Stone Way (which Conlin smirkingly informs us is in the Fremont Urban Village boundaries and thus none of its Wallingford neighbors’ business.) The thousands of new residential units we may expect are generally closer to Fremont than Wallingford. Better times are not around the corner for the old Wallingford retail core, as the “east Fremont” fills in with mandatory competing street front retail.
Wow, I agree with Espalier . . . if they’re going to tear down the building, replacing it with another one story spot will be hideous–doubly so if it’s a CVS. I’m not sure I’m ready to say the ‘hood’s a goner yet, but gee, how about a nice multi-story building that includes retail (not counting CVS) and housing to keep folks living here. I know lots of those who read Wallyhood don’t love this idea, but it’d be way better than a CVS, or pretty much any similar big box store.
I would almost guarantee this will be a CVS. They are a client of Velmeir… http://www.velmeir.com/Clients.html
And the curse of 45th continues! At this rate, Wallingford is going to be known as the “Pharmacy District”.
A single-story big-box-style building in this location would be pretty disappointing. I don’t how one would influence that in the design review process.
Sign this petition and pass it along to friends!
https://www.change.org/petitions/cvs-pharmacy-do-not-build-in-wallingford-seattle-wa
@ Donn
Not a number was a disappointing bumper sticker store that complained publicly about the price of their rent and threatened to move as if the hood would negotiate on their behalf. Good riddens. Sock monster has thrived and doubled in size in the same place.
I wouldn’t call moon temp the highlight of the hood either and would rather have a new building with a tenant vs a shuttered storefront with no tenant (Walgreen’s space for years until recently, babaloo, old japenese place that burnt down next to Molly moons, Tully’s for the past six months, etc.)
We might as well try to discourage CVS. I love this neighborhood…the thought of tearing down old buildings on the Wallingford/45th strip that have character (ok Moon Temple isn’t that pretty, but the facade on Tully’s is beautiful and I think that exists above Moon Temple as well?) kills me.
Please help by sharing this link with all of your Wallingford friends (and otherwise) to let CVS know we will NOT support the business should they move in. Thanks!
http://www.change.org/petitions/cvs-pharmacy-do-not-build-in-wallingford-seattle-wa?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_created
I’m cracking up…I didn’t realize my husband posted this link above. 🙂 I guess if we are nothing else…we are thorough 🙂
Coming to defense of Not-a-Munber… they sold much mor ethan stickers. They organized many community affairs and used countless personal hours and time setting up and coordinating community events: kiddie parade, art walk, the 10% discount program, drives for community members, food bank collections and more. So what if they were upset about their rent?
Other businesses didnt talk about their rent and closed.. no word, nothing.. just closed. The trend began a couple years ago and continues. i will sign the petition, but I truly sadly believe what I said” big money is buying our community”.
**Number… I mis-type when emotional
What a shame. Another vanilla building for the vanilla yuppies that have taken over what used to be one of the most vibrant (and blue collar) neighborhoods in Seattle. And a CVS to boot. How many pharmacies does a neighborhood need. You can bet that the developer lives out somewhere in the suburbs and could care less about the concept of neighborhood. So sad.
Here is what the Dept of Neighborhoods Historic Resource Survey says:
” Summary for 2104-2108 N 45th ST N / Parcel ID 0510000735 / Inv #
Historic Name: Unknown Common Name: Tully’s Coffee & 2 Others
Style: Commercial Neighborhood: Wallingford
Built By: Year Built: 1929
Significance
Notes: Only cornice remains – elaborate terra cotta cornice; All store fronts severely altered; only west elevation is good. ”
Perhaps the elaborate terra cotta cornice could be preserved and incorporated into the new construction.
I doubt that the “plan” to build a 1 story commercial building while the developer at the 1300 block of N 45th is asking the City Council for an upzone to NC-40 for the lots zoned LR3-RC (along Allen Pl). There is just too much profit and too much demand for the commercial real estate in the Wallingford Residential Urban Center.
I checked the DPD on-line zoning map. 2104 – 2108 North 45 appears to be zoned NC2P-40. 1 story commercial might actually translate into 1 story commercial at ground level and 3 stories of residential with parking exclusive to the commercial use.
Who speaks for the rats?
Almost all our wild bunnies have been relocated or transformed into Lapin a La Cocotte. Friends and neighbors, we cannot permit this to happen to OUR rats! Have you not seen “An American Tail” or “Fievel Goes West”? We need to round up the rats and provide them with temporary accommodations until the next Grand Design is ready for them.
We also need to display our bums far more prominently than we do now. These people are YOUR clan: be PROUD! Death to Amerika!
When the property is developed, it will definitely be a multi-story project – 1 level of commercial + 3 of residential, with a parking entrance off of Meridian. It has no chance of being protected for historic purposes, and if it was even close, the owner of the property has the right to destroy the terra cotta cornice (and scuttle any attempt at historic designation.) Most people don’t realize that having a historic building on a site effectively destroys the property value, since it can’t be developed to increase the total occupiable square footage of the site.
The best thing that could happen would be that the developer would attempt to retain the existing street level facade, but this is really only a compromise, since everything behind the wall is brand new and any ‘real’ character the building previously had has been obliterated.
Every single story building on 45th that is at risk, doubly so if they are on a corner. The only way to impede developments like this is to limit their ability to get contiguous pieces of property by having a diverse group of owners along a strip, preventing easy acquisition of large spaces.
“with surface parking for 25 vehicles.”
Apparently the current plan includes a fairly large parking lot. The folks at Velmeir back in Michigan are clueless if they think this type of development belongs at this location.
There is a lot behind the old Tully’s that might have somewhere near two dozen spaces. But where’s the point in tearing down a one-story commercial building to build a one-story commercial building? Can it not be renovated?
And CVS is terrible. They make Walgreen’s look like Tiffany’s
This sounds terrible. I really hope that if there’s significant community push-back, CVS will give up. I was so looking forward to seeing what was going to replace Tully’s; and Moon Template – not my favorite place in the world, but still > CVS.
Sadly, can’t go to the design review, but it there’s any flyering, phone calling, or email writing to be done, I’m in.
I’m a little confused about this neighborhood – it seems like retail/restaurant space along N 45th St should be in high demand, but instead we have a bunch of un- or under-used slots. I don’t get it.
@Pug Amigo, way to insult your neighbors. Nothing brings a community together like some good ole us-vs-them thinking.
People continually leave because of rent. Its about money, not abotu community. The owners could have kept the rent lower for NotaNumber, Golden Olive and even Chabelas and Tullys.
Tully’s was in bankruptcy; this had nothing to do with the rent. CVS bought the lease in an auction in the bankruptcy proceeding.
I remember the community reaction when QFC bought Food Giant. By engaging them rather than attacking them, the relationship with the community was far better. The big Wallingford sign is a result of that community outreach to the new neighbors.
Geesh, am I the old-school old fart who would lament the passing of yet another iconic dive-bar (Moon Temple)? Ernie Steele’s up on Broadway, the old Hattie’s Hat in Ballard, the Dog House downtown…sometimes a person just wants to have an extremely strong and anonymous gin & tonic in dim lighting and with the faint ambiance of urinal blocks without the veneer of hipness. And there’s greasy food and grumpy service to boot! My teenage son happens to think that the food there is da bomb…
It is unlikely that they would raze the building to build another 1-story building in its place. It must be confusing wording for a remodel to the Tully’s space so CVS can move in. If CVS took over the Tully’s lease and didn’t purchase the Real Estate than the Moon Temple space shouldn’t be effected. If the building was demolished they would definitely go multiple stories with this site.
Here is the description of the development from the construction permit:
“Proposed new 13, 151 square foot single tentant retail building. (9,365 square foot footprint with 3,786 square foot second floor)”
I emailed the DPD Planner about the location of the Early Design Review Public Meeting. One place on the seattle,gov web reads Ballard High School and another University Heights. I suggested Hamilton if DPD has to re-announce the meeting.
I agree with Sharon — we should definitely lobby for DPD to require the cornice to be removed and maintained in the new building. (Just looked today — the building was named the Della V. (I think) in 1929. None of those three buildings are that attractive, but I hate the thought of a big-box store of any kind going in there — much less a CVS, like we don’t already have enough pharmacies in the ‘hood. I am concerned that they might want to go up more than one additional story (the max. height on that block today). But my bigger concern is that these upscale new developments put in upscale retail space on the ground floor, which none of our funky local businesses can afford. Even if it stays in three separate spaces, it’s bound to turn into more tanning salons, T-Mobiles, etc.
What’s going on with design review on 45th and Meridian? The apodment building looks like an overgrown Burger King, (complete with dumpsters up front!) and now CVS? What gives? Let’s just make sure that whatever is built has a historical connection to the neighborhood. I’d rather see a nice restaurant or destination coffee shop instead of a national conglomerate selling what everyone else sells.
Let’s bring 45th back!
I am not sure how well they will perform with so many other drug stores around, but I think they think sales will boost with the Affordable Care Act. It is their prerogative if they want to open a location here, but we can effect how they design and develop the property.
I’m not finding an official listing for the specific design review meeting when this location will be discussed. I would really like to attend. I will keep looking, and perhaps make some phone calls, but I’m new at this, so any help would be appreciated.
Here is the Official Bulletin from seattle.gov. The announced location, Ballard HS, might be wrong and subject to change to University Heights or as I suggested Hamilton.
Notice of Design Review Early Design Guidance Meeting Bulletin Home Print Search
Project: 3015297
Address: 2100 N 45th St
Area: Northeast
Zone: NEIGHBOR CMRCL 2-40′ PEDESTRIAN, SINGLE FAMILY 5000, ARTERIAL WITHIN 100 FT., URBAN VILLAGE OVERLAY
Contact: WAYNE SHORES
Contact phone: (248)539-7997 x
Planner: Michael Dorcy
Planner phone: (206) 615-1393
Conditions: PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The proposal is for a one story commercial structure with mezzanine, containing 11,076 sq. ft. of retail and accessory spaces, with surface parking for 25 vehicles. Existing structure to be demolished.
MEETING
Date: Monday, July 15, 2013
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Ballard High School Library
1418 NW 65th St
Library
All meeting facilities are ADA compliant. Translators or interpreters provided upon request. Please contact the planner listed above at least five business days prior to the meeting to request this service.
OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMENT
The Director will accept written comments to assist in the preparation of the early design guidance through July 15, 2013. You are invited to offer comments regarding important site planning and design issues, which you believe, should be addressed in the design for this project.
Comments and requests to be made party of record should be submitted to [email protected] or
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700 5th Avenue, Suite 2000
PO Box 34019
Seattle, WA 98124-4019
PROCESS
An application for Design Review related to future development of this site has been submitted to the Department of Planning and Development (DPD). The first phase of Design Review includes the Early Design Guidance (EDG) meeting. At the Early Design Guidance meeting, the following occurs:
The applicants will present information about the site and vicinity as well as early massing design concepts.
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The Affordable Health Care Act put me and many others out of reach for medical insurance and health?? care. How can this increase sales at a CVS?
Thanks Sharon! This meeting no longer shows up on http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/Design_Review_Program/Overview/ , but I called and it is still scheduled to occur on July 15th, location (“somewhere in Wallingford”) is yet to be determined.
Re-adding the petition link. Please forward to friends and neighbors. The more support, the better! Thanks 🙂
https://www.change.org/petitions/cvs-pharmacy-do-not-build-in-wallingford-seattle-wa
@Gary, you nailed it on the head. Even for those who don’t go to bars or drink, let me ask you: Would you rather have a independent business that has been operating in our neighborhood for 70 years or…another one of a million CVS’s? What a travesty.
I live near the intersection of Meridian and 45th and the crazy drunks coming out of Moon Temple after drinking cheat hard liquor is very disturbing. I also don’t think we need another drug store but do welcome new development in that site since we have way too many bars around this area.
@Tanent: I’m curious how long you’ve live near that intersection. Most of the bars around that area have been there for many years.
Cindy – It is not us against them. It is the gentrification of what was once a dynamic neighborhood of small local merchants into stores owned by strangers whose only commitment to the neighborhood is how much money they can take out of it. I was born in Wallingford before you were a gleam in your father’s eye. I have watched it change. And that change has been fueled by more money than good sense. Wallingford used to be what Fremont is now, fun and exciting. The U District is a mess. Fremont welcomes diversity and small merchants. Meanwhile Wallingford is losing it’s character. The Moon Temple is in fact a dive bar but it has been a part of the neighborhood that can not be replaced. I find it all very sad.
This is a quality site that deserves a quality design, and this sounds like garbage. I’m looking forward to attending every meeting I can. DPDs website says the first one will actually be on August 5 at 6:30 pm at university heights, has anyone confirmed?
Is it gentrification? Or strip mallism?
Wallingford used to be fun and exciting!? Now, I like Wallingford, but let’s not get carried away!
One of our problems as we try to convince the DPD that we deserve something better here, is that we aren’t that special. It isn’t Pioneer Square, or even Ballad Ave, full of high quality historic buildings. I imagine they’ve been trained to recognize historic buildings as a legitimate issue, but I don’t think the cornice going to cut it. We sound more like `I don’t know exactly what I want but this sure isn’t it.’ Have we been getting what we want? Like the Chase Bank cater-corner to this site, the Key Bank that used to be a video store, the liquor store that used to be a video store …?
I think maybe one of the structural problems is that development is spread out along N 45th, in places somewhat like “strip” development and in other places more like a retail core. I think it would be good for the retail core if it were more well defined. That would make it easier to explain why the general mix of stuff along N 45th isn’t representative of what’s appropriate at this particular site.
Actually we will have no say whatsoever on this project, none, zero, zip. Just like all the others.
The city will go through it’s usual meaningless gestures in the name of community development, but in the end the property owner and developer will do whatever they want. And the Design Review process is debating society for retired, out of work architects and architect wannabes – it has no authority of any kind.
When was the last time the city blocked or significantly altered any development request, other than porn stores and strip joints? The planners told me that they fear being sued and losing. And if it looks like a bit of tax revenue is coming, they’ll make it sound like a good idea.
Fremont now has 4 banks within a block of each other – 3 of which are national chains. Union started life as Fremont First National (in a trailer) but that was years ago.
The city talks about neighbors and community but they don’t mean any of it. From what I’ve heard from the current crop of council and mayoral candidates, it will be business as usual regardless. It’s a show and nothing more.
Indeed, the Ballardization of Wallingford is happening, except we won’t get the good/fun restaurants and saloons – just traffic and parking headaches.
You said it John. Sad to say.
It’s good to be a little realistic about what you can hope to get, under the current regime. Much of the above discussion does focus on goals that aren’t attainable through the design review or any other process, so amounts to nothing more than blowing off steam (or hot air, if you prefer.) On the other hand, I think it’s also unrealistic to say the design review process can’t achieve anything of value. It’s weaker than we’d like for sure, but if you can think of some really trivial design change that would make a big difference, it’s worth a try.
And then it’s good to be thinking about what we need, to move towards a more representative city bureaucracy, and/or a city leadership that really has some idea how to build a great city. Is the current crop of candidates all cut from the same cloth? I doubt that! The ones currently at the top of the heap probably are, but … we get the government we deserve.
I used to work in the bar at Moon Temple- 30 years ago? My family used to go there for Chinese when I was a little girl. When Harry retired from the bartending-I think that was the end of an era…I’ve been sober 21 years now so I haven’t been in there lately!
But I do not want to see another big corp come in..
CVS? ugh. How about thinking even bigger! Not only what the neighborhood and community need but what would best serve our WORLD??
Anyone interested in starting a Vegan cafe with organic locally sourced ( as much as possible) cruelty free products and space for educational/Art/ Music/Poetry presentations? Family friendly- EARTH FRIENDLY!
I was talking to some people at the Wallingford comm council/chamber booth at this weekends Family Festival (something like that) – they had not heard of the coming CVS apocalypse but mentioned that Bartells is thinking of closing the Wallingford store (not big enough to carry the stuff the others have) and commented that if CVS goes in a block away, they’ll punch out for sure.
How about Bartells goes into the big new space (no one will miss the Moon Temple anyway) and the existing space can be a fun/interesting restaurant and/or pub? As long as we’re going to be the new Ballard, might as well get some decent places to eat and drink.
we still need a women clothing store, a juice bar, a dance/yoga studio, another nightclub dance place
I like lots of these ideas for the space….but, can any of those really be viable in the neighborhood, in this economy? I like Vegan’s question: is anyone interested in, say, kicking in the $$ to establish a collective?
Hope the original bdg will remain. Need a leader. Read at the SF cable car museum that if Friedel Klussmann had not organized the public outcry, all the cable lines would’ve been destroyed.
Not a Number expanded not once but twice: owners were split on this decision. Not so much a raise in rent as overexpansion & bad timing. Archie McPhee’s drew business away. Not a Number/ John & Kara were WONDERFUL contributors to Wallingford community: sad to see them go.
Design Proposal Meeting for this project was postponed until Monday, Aug 5th.
6:30 pm at the University Heights Center Room 209
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/aboutus/news/events/DesignReview/upcomingreviews/default.asp
I plan on going to the design review and I encourage others to go, too. I have been on the other side as a designer and we took the comments very seriously. So, go and comment!
So it’s assumed that this will happen I guess –
The Design Proposal meeting is more ‘show’ – the developer can and will do whatever they want, regardless of what is discussed at this meeting.
And if the city were at all serious about it, why not have the meeting in the neighborhood? Because they’re not.
@Kristin K: I assume we are past the point when we can say “no” to having a CVS in Wallingford. I assume that all we can do at this point is influence (hopefully) what the CVS will look like. With your experience, is that your understanding?
@john: University Heights Center is pretty close to Wallingford. In fact, if the Wallingford Bartel closes, as someone in this thread suggested was possible, then I will be shopping at Bartel on University Way or Roosevelt Square (and Pharmaca). I will NOT be shopping at CVS!
This discussion and potential of having a 4th pharmacy in Wallingford prompted me to start a Facebook page (I’m a social media manager, so this was my natural response) to get the community of wallingford together to discuss keeping Wallingford a locally focused neighborhood.
It is called “Keep Wallingford Local” http://www.facebook.com/keepwallingfordlocal. There is not really any posts yet, but feel free to like the page, post on the page and we will continue to add updates and articles as it pertains to this and other Wallingford community developments.
Cheers!
Suly, yes, I don’t think we have any legal say in there being a CVS, but we can make comments and recommendations on how the building is built (and potentially show that this is not the ideal location, though that’s a long-shot). I would suggest we keep it relevant (setbacks, materials, parking access, how to reflect neighborhood character, making it pedestrian-friendly…). A lot of times, people ask for improvements that are out of the boundaries of the project or that would not be adopted due to incredible expenses and liabilities. We’re more likely to be heard if we are clear, concise, respectful and to-the-point. I hope that is helpful! I am looking forward to the meeting.
Save the Moon Temple!!.
At least let the new building be of a design that the N 45th St façade be compatible the c.1929 architectural character of the neighborhood.
We do not need a CVS big store.
We do not need an ugly, modernist building like the new red-orange monstrosity just north of the site.
This is horrible news. The Moon Temple must be saved. We can not afford to lose another dive especially not for a god damned corporapist chain like CVS!! Enough is enough.
If it does get built please do not support it. Please
Hello Wallingford neighbors from Uptown and West Seattle. You should know that you are not alone – CVS is preparing an invasion of our neighborhoods! They are proposing very similar projects in the heart of Uptown and the Alaska junction. Both of those projects are single-story, single-use, suburban stores right next to major transit hubs.
Also, the design packet for your August 5 Design Review meeting is now available:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3015297AgendaID4513.pdf
And here’s the one for Queen Anne/Uptown.
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3014863AgendaID4471.pdf
A prize for who can tell the difference!
No packet yet for West Seattle, but oh boy! It will have a drive-through.
http://westseattleblog.com/2013/07/new-proposal-in-4700-block-of-fauntleroy-way-drive-thru-drugstore
Despite comments above to the contrary, community voices DO have an influence. The Walgreens in the heart of Capitol Hill was first proposed to be a suburban store on a surface parking lot. At Broadway and Pine, of all places! Community pushback AND sincere engagement with the developers led to it becoming a mixed-use apartment building. Walgreens still arrived as a tenant, but in an urban building, not a suburban one from 1950.
Brian,
Thanks for the links! Yikes! I’m not impressed at all, though it’s not as bad as I had envisioned. I don’t see how these schemes fit into the Wallingford (or Queen Anne) neighborhood specifically. It seems like a generic building that could fit in any neighborhood, town, suburb or city across the U.S.
Here’s a link to the Wallingford Design Guidelines:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/cms/groups/pan/@pan/documents/web_informational/dpds021316.pdf
They address most of the guidelines, but here are a few points that may be applicable and not addressed in the proposed plan:
– increase ground-level setback for pedestrian traffic and amenity features where existing sidewalk is too narrow.
– encourage indoor-outdoor commercial spaces, public plazas and seating.
– divide building into small masses (like Harold’s Lamps), varying height and setbacks.
– use color schemes to reduce apparent size and bulk of buildings (not white, off-white, pinky-beige buff on portions over 24 ft tall).
– higher level of detail at base/eye-level.
– creative, artistic and unique signage are encouraged.
– icons, logos or designs that represent a service rather than corporate logos are encouraged.
– flower boxes or planters at entry ways are encouraged.
One thing that concerns me is the monotony as one walks by. I believe there are (were) four different businesses on that corner with five entrances and four unique characteristics. Now, it will be one. That’s a bore to the pedestrian experience and to the people driving through the neighborhood (ie. less likely to stop and shop).
Hello! The petition we started has aprox 300 signatures…not sure that will get CVS’s attention, but I also know efforts like this need more than I’m able to give at this time. If anyone wants to take over the petition efforts and/or you have a community effort going of your own to keep moon temple building from being demolished/CVS from going up…I’d be glad to communicate with you and hand over the petition reigns. Would love it if we could keep them out. Also happy to take on a helping role, just can’t lead the charge.
That building is terrible. It has no place in the center of Wallingford. I lived on Capitol Hill during the fight over the Walgreen’s next to the Egyptian Theater. Indeed, community voices had a HUGE impact on what was built there. The existing building is not awesome, but it’s certainly better than the pile of crap suggested to replace the Tully’s building.
I will be at the meeting on Monday. I hope you all are there too!
The corporate headquarters of Caremark CVS is in Rhode Island. The corporate office is crunching numbers and believe they can extract a profit from our neighborhood. According to the 2012 Annual Report for CVS the “retail business continued to fire on all cylinders in 2012” and CVS has a “deep understanding of consumer behavior.” Linen ‘n Things was owned by CVS and it failed so maybe the corporation will listen to reason that the consumers who reside in the dense urban villages of Seattle value the existing character of commercial buildings and their consumer behavior will reflect that value.
First, Moon Temple is much more than a great dive bar. It’s some of the best Chinese food in town. Johnny and the crew are good folks. Part of our hood for many years. Some of you say “dive bar” like it’s a bad thing. Not all of us like TGIFs and Matador. There are more tastes out there than just “you’re” yuppified ones. I walk at least 4 nights a week with my wife and never feel a dangerous or bad environment around those bars.
I’ve lived here ten years, and will be very sad to see this corporate takeover happen. It’s even more shocking that many support it being torn down because it’s not new and plastic enough for you. Probably the same folks who blocked Gasworks as the new venue for Summer Nights concert series. Folks who don’t appreciate world class music, good food or strong drinks. I’m surprised you’ve not bored yourselves to death. You are perhaps more despicable than CVS.
I hope the rest of you will refuse to give CVS a cent of your hard earned money.
Does anyone have the contact info for the owner/landlord of the Tully’s building? I know a young woman who is looking for a little shop to open for her up-cycled/recycled small furniture and gift shop. She may be interested in renting the old Wallingford Neighborhood Office. Maybe the landlord would be interested in doing something short term or until the final plans are in place for whatever goes there. Couldn’t hurt the neighborhood to have a nice little “green” type shop in that spot. Thanks, Barb
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