Community works to assistance save West Seattle coffee shop

By:
Siemny Kim

Updated: Jan 21, 2018 – 1:51 PM

Nestled off California Avenue SW in this ancestral craftsman home is C P Coffee Company.

“This building is usually so special and so unique,” pronounced C P Coffee owners Cameron Moores.

Since Moores and her husband, Pete, non-stop a coffee emporium 15 years ago, it’s turn some-more than usually a place to squeeze a crater of joe.

Jamieson Morrell has been a unchanging given day one.

“It’s been my home divided from home,” Morrell explained. “Sort of where we come to move friends, colleagues, coworkers and get some work done.”

So when a Moores schooled their landlord had put a skill adult for sale, they knew they had to do something.

As a tenants, a Moores have a right of initial refusal created into their lease.

But with skill billed as a “terrific growth opportunity” online with a $1.25 million dollar cost tag, a Moores knew they couldn’t do it alone.

To their amazement, the village has stepped up.

“We have a GoFundMe page and neighbors as investors who have stepped adult to deposit with us,” Moores said. “This place has turn as critical to them as to my family.”

The Moores have two years left on their lease. 

But they have usually two weeks left to come adult with a cash.

“We’re still not utterly there,” Moores added. “But a fact we could get as tighten as we are — we consider we’re three-quarters of a approach there in a week and a half — is stunning.”

Moores is feeling confident. 

And if they lift off a sale, she says she’s even some-more committed to portion a community.

“It’s been overwhelming. we will be gladdened not usually in a income way, though in a heart approach for a rest of my life,” Moores said. “This knowledge has altered us.”

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