And fellow neighborhood bar the Boombox is hosting a drag show fundraiser on Friday, July 30, with 25 percent of sales going to Lumber Yard employee relief. Meanwhile, the family-owned La Tipica Oaxaqueña still has a fire damage recovery fund set up on GoFundMe, as does Dottie’s Double Wide and Nuggi. White Center Pride set up a GoFundMe campaign page for the Lumber Yard and reached its $100,000 goal within days.
There’s currently a $10,000 award for any information related to the incident the sheriff’s department says the investigation is still ongoing, but there have been no further updates.Īlmost immediately after the full scope of the devastation was clear, the White Center community started pitching in to help impacted businesses recover. Get Directions (206) 695-2007 Contact The Lumber Yard.
Co-owner Michale Farrar pointed to a break-in a month ago as reason for the suspicion and told the White Center Blog that there were “anti-gay tags” on the windows of the bar in the week leading up to the fire. Gay Bar in Seattle, Washington 9619 16th ave sw (700.34 mi) Seattle, WA, WA 98106. The Lumber Yard, billed as White Center’s first gay bar, draws as big a crowd as any LGBTQ bars on Capitol Hill since it debuted last year. The Lumber Yard Bar subsequently posted a message on its Facebook page that the incident was also most likely a hate crime. An entry fee of 10 will benefit the fundraiser along with 25 of Boombox sales during the event.Boombox is located across the street and slightly north of Lumber Yard Bar at 9608 16th Ave SW. While local authorities initially classified the fire as an accident, more evidence eventually led the King County Sheriff’s Department to open an arson investigation. In the early morning hours July 5, a two-alarm fire that investigators believe started at the Lumber Yard ripped through the bar and damaged several neighboring businesses, including Dottie’s Double Wide, an under-construction boba tea shop called Nuggi, and Mexican grocer La Tipica Oaxaqueña. Co-owner Nathan Adams tells Eater Seattle the bar hopes to reopen in six-to-nine months, which is encouraging news considering how dire the situation seemed earlier this month. The neighborhood’s first gay bar - which opened in January of 2018 - has found a new location just across the street at 9630 16th Avenue SW. The county and especially the areas along Interstate 5 have had considerable development in the last 15 years including the construction of casinos, hotels, outlet malls and an Amazon Fulfillment Center.Just weeks after a fire destroyed its building, the Lumber Yard Bar in White Center is picking up the pieces. Smokey Point is roughly 45 miles north of downtown Seattle and about 12+ miles from central Everett. A new LGBTQ venue in Snohomish County would be greatly welcomed by the many LGBTQ+ people living in the county. Bar Myx has been closed for several years.
Meanwhile, in other news revealed on social media, we learned that the owner of the former gay bar in Everett, Bar Myx, the far north Seattle suburb in Snohomish County, has signed a lease to open a new gay venue even further north up Interstate 5. Help Ben rebuild from the White Center fire. And, apparently that scuttlebut was right because today’s announcement confirms that the new location IS across the street from the old bar in a building that used to be occupied by an adult bookstore. 9745 26th Ave SW 601, Seattle, WA 98106 5350438 Yes, that is really the price for this. Lumber Yard Bar rebuilds: Gay community staple rises from ashes The Lumber Yard Bar updated their business hours.
Later in July, we heard through the grapevine (by eavesdropping on conversations at a White Center BBQ joint) that Lumber Yard Bar owners were working on a deal to move the bar across the street from the original bar located on 16th Avenue SW. The LGBTQ community rallied to help them rebuild in the weeks after the fire by contributing thousands of dollars to help them rebuild. For those of you out of the loop, The Lumber Yard Bar and several other businesses in White Center, Washington, the small community and suburb southwest of Seattle in unincorporated King County, was destroyed in an arson set fire early in the morning of July 5, 2021. The fire started in the basement of The Lumber Yard, Sheppard said, referring to the local gay bar which has been a fixture in the neighborhood’s burgeoning LGBTQIA+ scene since 2017.