Exit133.com: McKinley Ave. Small Business Changes?

McKinley Ave. Small Business Changes? (11. April 2007, 16:29 by Derek Young) ~ Time To Explore

We heard recently that Big Nick’s Pizza and Pasta in the 3500 block of McKinley Avenue is available for sale (the business, not the building). What we find particularly interesting is the second half of the listing:

Normally this pizza business should sell in the $75,000.00 price range based upon sales, equipment & opportunity. However, Owner must relocate and has chopped the price to $35,000.00 cash. Broker will help arrange financing on outside assets. This business needs to be sold ASAP. Firm price!! Oh yes, tavern next store will soon be converted to a Micro beer pub – with a whole different clientele who will be hungry for Pizza. Perhaps a pass-through to the tavern could be restored?

We look forward to hearing more from the neighborhood.

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I’m personally so happy to hear that this tavern is going to be converted that I might start to cry.

I live within walking distance, and I always rock my ipod when I’m near it so I won’t hear the shady clientele standing out front shout things at me as I walk by.

But on an extremely positive note, I’ve always thought that the strip there along McKinley was so very ripe for renaissance, and that there was a much higher calling for the space that the two taverns occupy.

However, I’m sad to see Big Nick go. Good luck to you!

Fingers are crossed that more conversions will occur.

Go Eastside!

1 | Posted by Roxanne Murphy | Apr 11, 05:44 PM

I agree with Roxanne—this sounds so good I can hardly believe it. This is a cute block that could have a lot of life in it with the right mix of businesses.

2 | Posted by UPSpatrick | Apr 12, 10:02 AM

This is great!!! No offense to other areas of Tacoma, but I would love to have some place to go besides downtown and the north end.

I hope this comes true for the McKinley neighborhood. They have certainly tolerated enough.

Pat

3 | Posted by Pat | Apr 12, 03:31 PM

I remember a male strip club in that neighborhood. Don’t remember the name of the place, but according to the Trib the owner’s name was C. R. Cox.

4 | Posted by Crenshaw Sepulveda | Apr 12, 03:36 PM

I am sure great things are yet to come on McKinley Hill…if the city finally makes it a mixed-use center.

5 | Posted by Jake | Apr 12, 08:07 PM

There are so many incredible people here in the McKinley Neighborhood and I think it would be a great acknowledgement of the positive growth of our neighborhood to have Harry’s Tavern re-made. I too am sad to see Big Nick’s go but confident that there are great things to come….we’re ready!

6 | Posted by Dome Topper | Apr 12, 10:15 PM

Revive the street car route through McKinley. The street cars created those business districts and could help to revive them. Kind of seems short sited to take people to bustling neighborhoods and business districts that are already served well by transit (6th ave/Proctor).

7 | Posted by Hill Top Guy | Apr 13, 09:19 AM

The closing of Harry’s Tavern cannot come too soon. The McKinley Hill Business District is destined to become a vibrant and colorful hub. As we continue to strengthen our neighborhood resolve, our path becomes clear. Drug trafficking, vagrancy, negligent landlords and grimy store fronts will eventually give way to the forces of community pride and real opportunity. In the meantime, we can demand no less than full cooperation from our City Government. This means robust crime and property code enforcement, as well as healthy business incentive measures. Such focused, unified priorities will result in the neighborhood that we deserve. Security and commerce will provide the tax base, and the quality of basic services that come with it.

8 | Posted by Dwayne Wegner | Apr 16, 12:05 AM

McKinley Hiil is perfectly poised to seperate itself from the “eastside”. Being on the fringe of downtown, indeed overlooking downtown, I think it can carve out a very unique identity and neighborhood structure. I have admired the potential of the business district there and the housing stock is very sound. Easy commute to downtown, I’ve actually walked it from time to time, reasonable housing prices and really a very nice part of town, I hope McKinley Hill realizes it true potential and is considered more a satellite of downtown than a part of the so called and much maligned eastside.