The clothing store Kick It Boutique will be closing their shop at 2206 NW Market St at the end of June, and will moving to online sales only.
This is the second store closure in Ballard announced this week, as Kick It joins Curtis Steiner in shutting its doors after a challenging few months of COVID-19 closures.
The owner, Lauren Buehner-Storbeck, announced the news on Twitter, saying that since she bought the business in 2018, there’s been one setback after another. Between the west Market Street construction, the 2019 fire that claimed nearby businesses at 24th and Market, COVID-19, and the upcoming central Market Street repaving, Buehner-Storbeck says it’s not viable for the long-term in their current location.
By the end of June, Kick It’s inventory will only be available online, but Buehner-Storbeck says she plans to open a new location next year, likely on the east side of Lake Washington.
“This decision was not taken lightly and I am saddened by the events that have occurred in the last six months,” Buehner-Storbeck writes. “I hope you will continue to stay with us virtually for the moment and join us in the new space when the time comes.”
To shop online, visit Kick It’s website.
Photo: Kick It Boutique on Facebook
Gonna be tumbleweeds rolling down Market Street soon…
Market Street Campground
Maybe Kshama can help open state-run boutiques for the ladies? All dresses in gray, one size fits all, with matching caps? No jewelry or makeup allowed.
So did you ask Dan out on a date and you got turned down?
Do men like that get asked out in dates? Pretty sure he’d need testicles to get a date.
Aww pookey!
Nothing to see here, move along. We are all not supposed to see the train wreck right in our faces. More and more places closing, not just due to C-19, rather inept leadership, high taxes, too many fees/regulations, and crime that is getting worse. Durkan + her partner are worth $250 MILLION, or more, and live in a mansion on Lake Washington. Out of touch and losing the streets. This would be great fiction.
More and more places closing, not just due to C-19, rather inept leadership, high taxes, too many fees/regulations, and crime that is getting worse.
Yup, the economy is just BOOMING once you step foot across the Seattle city limits.
Take your meds bro.
Could it be that the 2 homeless Ballard Commons heroin addicts that routinely pulled down their pants in the window were bad for business? Saw that 1 too many times.
Sad to hear this. Hope online market is better than brick and mortar. At least there will be less drug addicts urinating on the door handle. Will support for sure.
So is your homeless delusion the result of a mental illness or willful ignorance, Harley Lever? Inquiring minds want to know
Either way, seek mental help bro! 👍
Are you one of the guys pulling your pants down and randomly shouting profanities at pedestrians? Sounds like it.
Look, Dan Strauss supports your right to pull your pants down in public and sell drugs at the Commons but denying it ever happens is selective reality. The results are denial that homeless people could ever to do anything wrong. Itself, a complete fallacy.
https://komonews.com/news/operation-crime-justice/ballard-bar-owner-starts-facebook-group-to-track-crime-repeat-offenders
That sounds like something a person with the user handle “Mike O’Brien is smart” would do.
Keep living in your logical fallacy of a delusional reality Harley! Are you just angry that people have stopped paying attention to you?
Is hard for you to think people other than Harley Lever think like Harley Lever?
Look, I get you support open air drug markets at the Commons, mentally unstable people roaming around Ballard, shop lifting our neighbors stores, human waste on the sidewalks, public urination and property crime but reality is most people do not like that. In fact, they can’t stand it.
So the delusion is yours neighbor. Go to the CHAZ and take some of Ballard Common’s residents with you. It is your destiny…..