Downtown Post Office for McMenamins? (19. September 2008, 13:10 by Derek Young) ~ Sure ...
Dan Voelpel’s column today invites our favorite Oregon based restaurateurs and innkeepers to consider our soon-to-be-surplused downtown post office. In case you didn’t know, the great old post office at A Street and 11th is expected to be on the market soon. Why let it go the way of our downtown courthouse … So wouldn’t it’d be great for a McMenamin’s project?
Or, if it’s such a slam dunk location, maybe some local money can do something equally as exciting. Anybody?
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Wow. This would be an ideal McMenamins. Being an ex-Oregonian, I’ve been to most of the McMenamins spots and this would be right up thier alley. Just, let’s hope the place, as beautiful as it could be, doesn’t get boarded up like the Elks and forgotten.
1 | Posted by Jesse | Sep 19, 06:12 PM
I shared a ride down to Eugene a couple weeks ago with a lawyer who represents McMenamins in bar fight lawsuits. Apparently, there are a lot of fights that start a McMenamins establishments. Behind the rustic walls of all those historic preservation efforts are lots of simmering disputes.
What could this mean for A Street? Well, it could turn yet another desolate downtown block into an exciting place to be. That’s the great thing about urban life: you never know what’s going to happen next. Maybe Cliff Street Lofts residents will actually have a reason to look out their windows now that there may be police cars on their block every night breaking up the latest fight.
I’ve spent a good deal of time in the McMenamins establishment and do not recall them being a hot bed of violent behavior. I’m sure they have had some unpleasant incidents over the years but nothing that would make be think they would not be a good neighbor for us in downtown Tacoma.
3 | Posted by crenshaw sepulveda | Sep 22, 04:42 PM
“don’t make me live for my friday nights, drinking 8 pints and getting in fights”
Jamie Cullum from the song “Twentysomething”
5 | Posted by altered chords | Sep 23, 07:24 AM
I live in the Cliff Street Lofts, and besides waiting access to parking permits around our building, the development of this site has been long in waiting. It would be nice for something to happen across the street, but I do like the quiet weekends and nights!
6 | Posted by tct2326 | Sep 24, 10:50 AM
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