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The company, I mean, lol! I was in Redmond a couple of weeks ago and had planned on going to shop there. IT'S GONE! I hope they're not out of business? Does anybody know?
The Redmond store closed at the end of January......so SAD!!!!!
I had worked at the Redmond Town Center from the first day it opened and was right around the corner from that store. I had a hard time imagining it closed after 10 years! But on the blog it said the rent kept going up and the economy is hard so it just couldn't stay anymore. It was an AWESOME store!
They still have the Portland store but that's it.
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Originally Posted by MSBetsyZ
The company, I mean, lol! I was in Redmond a couple of weeks ago and had planned on going to shop there. IT'S GONE! I hope they're not out of business? Does anybody know?
I was really sad to see Rubber Soul go too..it had been my very favorite stamp store for years. I used to drop my husband/son off at the video game store so I could spend some *alone* time in Rubber Soul..ha ha. Now where am I going to go? (Starbucks I guess.) The women there were so great. A lot of stores ended up leaving the Redmond Towne Center due to rent increases. It's too bad.
They have another location in Poulsbo, WA...I hope to get over there one of these days!
I was talking with the Rubber Soul people about this at the Puyallup Stamp convention in May. They said the closure was due to rent increases as well as Redmond Town Center is now requiring 10 year leases.
When I still lived over there (just up the hill from the mall, really), they'd been promising to build Redmond Towne Center for a good 10 years at least. It finally got built a couple of years after I moved, darn it, lol! But really, it's not the kind of mall I was thinking of. Pretty yuppy, which is one of the main reasons we left the area, come to think of it. The area was getting a bit ritzy for us, even though I'd been born and raised in that area.
If you think the Town Center is yuppy, wait until you see the new mall being built in Bellevue - corner of NE 8th and 112th (I think). Make way for Neiman Marcus, Prada, Jimmy Choo, and more million dollar condos! I can't wait to do some serious window shopping.
On another note, I was also sad to see Rubber Soul leave. The Town Center is quite deserted, now. Not much reason to go there, except for the awesome Turkish food at Pasha Grill.
If you think the Town Center is yuppy, wait until you see the new mall being built in Bellevue - corner of NE 8th and 112th (I think). Make way for Neiman Marcus, Prada, Jimmy Choo, and more million dollar condos! I can't wait to do some serious window shopping.
On another note, I was also sad to see Rubber Soul leave. The Town Center is quite deserted, now. Not much reason to go there, except for the awesome Turkish food at Pasha Grill.
Yes, you would think that the management at RTC would have decided against raising rent/leases when it meant so many of their best stores were going to be leaving. Rubber Soul had been there from the very beginning and it's just not the same without that store there (at least for me!) I heard the movie theater is going to be changing in some way too...
...it's a bummer because it is the closest "mall" that a lot of us living in the Eastside have. Bell Square is a 30-45 min drive for me. poo.
Rubber Soul, anyone?
