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Submitted by security_six on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 8:28pm.
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Was thinking about this stuff today

Plenty of vacant space downtown.  Lots of dining, coffee, book stores, antiques, etc... downtown.  What is missing? 

 

"si vis pacem, para bellum"

 

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A healthy confection shop

A healthy confection shop such as chocolate sweetened with agave syrup and other sweets made from unrefined ingredients.


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I Know! I Know!

A freaking grocery store and a freaking pharmacy. Maybe a 24 hour dinner (or the reef could extend hours).

 OH! And I want to see the Manium come back. All ages show spaces bring families downtown. 

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I voted to be offended

I voted to be offended because I think we need a new Thai food restaurant/coffee shop that serves beer too.
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Emmett, we need another

Emmett, we need another asian restaurant downtown like a hole in the head! My opinion of course :P

Isn't there something like 8 or 9 places within two blocks of one another?

I'd love to have a good Cajun place down this way. As much as I love the Bayou up in Parkland, it's just a long way to drive.

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And, we don't need another

And, we don't need another coffee shop or bar either. I was being tongue in cheek, but I probably would have more obvious if I had said: "a place where I can get pad thai! There is no place in Olympia to get Pad Thai! And a spring roll."
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Sheesh, I feel dense now!

Sheesh, I feel dense now!
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Yeah...

If you're gonna do a poll S6, the least ya can do is include a "other" option...   

 

hehehehehehehe!

 

"A point of view is only a view from a point..." ~ Unknown

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doesn't "something else" = "other"?

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Urban Rest Stop

We could use an Oly version of the Urban Rest Stop in Seattle.
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YES YES YES!!

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That's a cool idea.

nt
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I vote for a rest stop...

...especially now that B&B has put a lock on their bathroom door.
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no vote, but...

...I'd say the a "health & wellness spa" would do great.
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Community Center

I was thinking along the same line but rather of a free community center with an indoor walking track, a universal weight system, a small gym with a couple of basketball hoops, and why not have some sort of Urban Rest Stop portions within a center meant for use by all community members instead of yet more segregation of various parts of the community? The center could have a health and wellness theme and offer free blood pressure check clinics as well as information about social services.




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Nonviolence Includes Animals:
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"PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's address to the International Nonviolence Conference in Bethlehem"
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A place with eats and drinks without a dukebox or TV

but with an open mike and a agreement that the entertainment shouldn't so loud that you can't hear your table mates...unless everyone decides to sing along. That's what we need downtown.
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I voted for gun shop, because I think it would be nice, but...

I like this idea.

I would also like to see a really good karaoke bar.

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thank you!

An evening hangout where you can actually hear other people talk!
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YARDBIRDS!!!!!

nt
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...those were the days...

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To be serious

I don't accept the assumption of the question. Well, actually, I just don't think too much about downtown businesses lately.

What I am thinking about is neighborhood businesses, like the SF Bakery and Rosey's on Rogers. So, maybe that's why I'm cracking wise about Pad Thai.

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Hmmm....

 Gun shops and donut shop have the same number of votes (2) right now...  IIRC, I have heard of a store that combined the two...  :-)

I like the idea of something like the Urban Rest Stop, but that is not a business per se, so out of the scope of this thread, but it would be great to see something like that downtown.

 

"si vis pacem, para bellum"

 

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As a downtown business owner....

... it's really amusing to read this thread... mathias
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Well

Now you know downtown wants pad thai, guns, donuts, special non processed sweets, adult novelties and showers.  :-)

 

"si vis pacem, para bellum"

 

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And a Grocery Store!

that i can afford i should say. like maybe, i don't know... a downtown food co-op! It's my WILDEST dream.
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There is a grocery store

And if you shop around the premium items, it is affordable.

I shopped at Bayview when I was cashing $300 paychecks... 

 

"si vis pacem, para bellum"

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Urban Rest Stop

Is in the lead with 4 votes.

People should contact LIHI and tell them that we want one here, contact our city council also.

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