(Image: Marjorie)

Fans of 14th and Union’s Marjorie already had some good news to soften the blow of Donna Moodie’s decision to shut the restaurant down after 13 years on the block and 20 years of business in Seattle. The busy restaurant entrepreneur and one of the few black owners in Seattle food and drink was preparing plans for a new Boujie Bar in the Central District.

Now, Moodie says she wants Marjorie to live on — Boujie Bar will have to wait. The restaurateur announced the switch in plans in a recent Seattle Times interview saying the 23rd and Union project will be “Marjorie 3.0” after her start in Belltown and eventual move in 2010 to Capitol Hill.

“I just couldn’t part with Marjorie,” Moodie told the Times. “It came to me when I was in the process of saying goodbye.”

CHS reported here on the abrupt closure of Marjorie in March. We broke the news on Boujie Bar here in January.

The space in the Midtown Square development is part of a roster of black and neighborhood-owned businesses in the project. CHS reported here on the plans to bring back the spirit of Helen Coleman in the form of Ms. Helen’s Soul Bistro at Midtown Square joining already opened arts venue Arté Noir and coming businesses including a second location of the Jerk Shack Caribbean restaurant on the edge of the development’s internal plaza. A new home for neighborhood bar The Neighbor Lady is also part of the plans. Raised Donuts, meanwhile, was the first to open in Midtown Square last spring after is move from its original location across 23rd Ave.

Marjorie is planned to reopen by fall.

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