Computer business offers help, seafood restaurant remodels, and a proposed hotel advances
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The community has rallied around the businesses and tenants who were affected by a devastating downtown fire earlier this month by raising thousands of dollars in donations.
Now, Olympia Computer, also based downtown, wants to help as well, the business announced this week.
“If we can help in some way, we would like to,” said Erik Johnson, chief executive of the business at 209 Washington St. NE.
The offer is this: The computer business will give any affected business and their staff members free labor on any computer support, up to $1,000 per person or business. Olympia Computer also is extending the offer to the firefighters who fought the blaze and the people who donated $100 or more to any of the funding sites set up to help downtown businesses recover.
The offer is in effect through 2022, the business said.
“We are a downtown business — just like Pete Lea’s or Revival Motors and Coffee — and our employees decided this is what they want to do to show our support for the downtown neighborhood,” Johnson said.
He said he already has received computers from Sound Audio Repair.
Business owners, impacted employees, firefighters or donors can reach Olympia Computer at 360-995-1010 or at Erik@Olympia.Computer.
Other business happenings
Budd Bay Cafe has closed through January so that it can remodel its kitchen, the longtime waterfront restaurant announced on Facebook. The business plans to have a grand reopening the first week of February.
“We can’t wait to welcome in the new year with a new look and new kitchen ready to serve up some delicious Northwest favorites,” the Facebook post reads.
WoodSpring Suites Olympia, a four-story, 122-room hotel proposed for 3901 Martin Way E., continues to advance, according to city of Olympia information.
The project received land-use approval in the fall and now a civil engineering permit application is under review, according to the city.
Downtown’s historic Kelley Building, at Fourth Avenue and Jefferson Street, which was once home to an antique mall called Finders Keepers, has been sold, commercial real estate business The Rants Group announced on social media.
The building sold for $1.3 million. Pat Rants and Darrell McQuiston represented the seller; Becky Samuelson, who also works for The Rants Group, represented the buyer.
This story was originally published December 31, 2021 at 5:45 AM.
