Last week, we told you about the latest new business taking up residence in the restored Odd Fellows building. A press release issued today by the building’s developer has details about Flora and Henri’s move and three more tenants set to hang their shingles at Pine and 10th Ave:
The new tenants will add to the building’s creative vibe, and include: established Seattle children’s and fancier retailer flora and henri; a new environmental-focused mercantile known as Nube Green; hydration tablet creator nuun; and Smith-Harmon internet marketing firm.
The release describes Nube Green thusly — you can find out a little more here http://www.nubegreen.com/
Also on the ground floor — sandwiched between the popular OddFellows Café and Molly Moon’s, and right next to flora and henri — Nube Green plans to open the doors on its 2,300 square foot mercantile store in November. This retailer will carry a broad array of simple, fun and elegant gifts for the ecologically minded consumer. The store will only sell products that have not crossed any oceans, including locally made items from recycled and sustainable materials. Nube Green will also carry its own line of products.
Nube Green is the creation of Ruth True. She and her husband Bill opened Western Bridge, a nonprofit art gallery in Georgetown. You can read more about that project in this Seattle Weekly write-up.
Or someone needs to draw a new map.
I’m so over that stupid store.It will positively fail in that location.Pretty sure most of the young hipsters who populate that hood,don’t spend half of their rent money on tiny sweaters for babies they dont even have! The gift shop sounds pretty cool,though!
How ironic is it that they prominently mention Velocity amongst their tenants, seeing how that group is in the process of moving out of the Odd Fellows due to the exorbitant rent increases they, and so many other small non-profit groups formerly occupying the building, were hit with as part of Schroth’s “renovation”.
Also of note is that the “unique space” with the 25 foot ceilings that they can’t seem to lease was once a performance venue for a number of those same displaced groups.
It is ironic that the revamped Oddfellows building it cited as a creative space when all the creative people that used to work in the building where kicked out and displaced so the rents could be raised for fancy retailers like Nube Green that also ironically sell locally made items. If you really wanted to support locally made products you would give the makers affordable places to work instead of shoving them to the side in the name of higher rents and profits.
if nube wanted to really help out the local artists they carry, nube could host some of those artists who do not have any artstudio in one of the floors of that oddfellows blg. there are mass produced items that are not locally made, such as the cards in the white rounders.
and should feature ALL the artists on their sparse website rather than just one.