Vancouver’s Igloo Restaurant closes – The Columbian

The igloo restaurant was closed this spring, however it’s nonetheless unclear what is going to occur to the two-story, 2,200-square-foot constructing.

Keys Restricted Partnership, which has owned the constructing since 2000, stated restaurant house owners Jorge and Andrea Estrada didn’t renew their lease this spring because of private well being issues. The corporate is now contemplating renting one other restaurant or changing the Edgewood Park neighborhood constructing into places of work.

“One restaurant has not been profitable within the final 15 years,” stated Judi Hickman, property supervisor. “We have had folks earlier than who stated we have been a block from heaven – that’s, if we have been on Mill Plain Boulevard we would be extra profitable.”

The constructing has had some scratches recently. Two months in the past, three males have been killed in a automotive when it crashed into the restaurant terrace. And a fireplace in March 2017 burned the best stage after an iPad charged with a non-commercial charger began to burn, in keeping with Hickman. The highest ground was beforehand used as a residential constructing, however has now been transformed into workplace area.

Hickman stated the neighborhood seems to be thriving they usually hope to maintain the constructing as a restaurant, however it stays to be seen. Keys Restricted Partnership is working with an architect to revamp not less than the bottom ground, she stated.

“We’re undecided,” stated Hickman. “We’re attempting to get our higher ground prepared.”

Hickman added that the constructing is unlikely to reopen in 2018.

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