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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Chow Coming Soon to a Shipping Container Near You: Pizza and Beer!

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM

At Rainier and Weller this spring (hopefully), it's a walk-up shipping-container pizza window with fenced-in outdoor seating and beer, plus music, movies, and maybe bocce ball. Central District News has the (yay!) story.

Also on CD News: The mayor and city council and Pete Holmes tell the liquor board to leave Central Cinema alone.

And: Help catch a bike thief!

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This is cool. That stretch of Rainier is as dead as anything in this city, though; he's going to be struggling for customers. He's up against a wasteland that's never recovered from the freeway, from Yesler Terrace, from the Boren cut, from the surface-parking virus.

Posted by Fnarf

on February 7, 2012 at 1:50 PM

@1 It's not dead,merely on life support. The problem is one of zoning. The neighborhood seems like an extension of SODO. There are large communities just to the east and north so customers might not be too much of a problem. Also, there will be a light rail station sometime in the next century at Atlantic and i90.

Posted by Rotten666 on February 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM

@2 retail restaurants can't make it to the 22nd century on promises. Cash burn rate is usually a max of 0-3 years.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on February 7, 2012 at 2:16 PM

Well if you come down to the neighborhood you can see for yourself all of the retail restaurants in the neighborhood that have been around for a great deal longer than three years.

Posted by Rotten666 on February 7, 2012 at 2:19 PM

@4, ORLY? Retail restaurants on that stretch of Rainier? All I can see is parking lots and vacant lots. Jackson Street, sure; Rainier, further down past Dearborn, sure. But that stretch of Rainier, and even worse, Boren above it, are empty as the moon. Except for Lloyd's Rocket, or whatever the Hawaiian place there now is called these days.

Boren was cut through in the 1950s; it used to end at Broadway, but the city demolished an entire neighborhood of houses to cut it through and connect it to Rainier. Ever notice that the streets between Yesler and Broadway don't connect to Boren, let alone go through? That's why. It's been a dead zone ever since. Convenient street for driving, but THE MOON for city life.

Posted by Fnarf

on February 7, 2012 at 3:50 PM

@2, Atlantic & I-90 is a quarter-mile away from Rainier and Weller. People won't walk that far, at least not unless there are plenty of other things along the way -- say, about twenty retail doorways. Of course, it's illegal to build and impossible to finance usable retail space anymore. I think there will be development around the station but not as far north as Weller. Especially since the Sound Transit people seem to only have imagination enough for enormous park'n'ride lots. Othello is the only station that's actually sparked civic life, unfortunately.

Posted by Fnarf

on February 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM

Off the top of my head...Mikado, the roasted chicken joint, chinese take out (Tea House?), a newish coffee house, and a Vietnamese restaurant are all within a couple of blocks. Not exactly foodie nirvana, but not exactly the moon either.

Posted by Rotten666 on February 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM