Photo courtesy of Peter Dalldorf
In the Center of Downtown, if you are walking down K Street, you will see a real gem of a retail space!
Between 9th and 10th Streets on K Street, if you look hard enough on the North side of the street, you will see the remains of what must have been one of Sacramento's smallest retail businesses - the former locksmith shop at 911 1/2 K Street.
When I first went to work in the Capitol, this was a very active business. The Locksmith had a dutch door and customers stood on the sidewalk. Inside the tiny space, there was walls filled with keys and tools. There was a tiny workbench with a grinder and key machine.
Amazingly, this small space, sandwiched (hahaha...) between the Subway Sandwich shop and the Sequoia Hotel survived the facade improvement to the sandwich shop. It is built in the ally between the two buildings.
Peter and I were thinking of uses that could go in here. We thought of a doughnut shop and if you were able to create a small space in front, you could even put a table here - I was thinking of the smallest pub in the UK, located in Bury St. Edmonds in Suffolk called The Nutcracker.
What do you think?
Are there any other spaces like this around The Big Tomato that you know about?
You wouldn't want a donut shop unless they were delivered as any cooking appliance would overheat the small space. But I could see mini-baristaria maybe with some nice (delivered) pastries. Or you could go low-end with just coffee--no espresso nor steam--and offer up Svenhart's danish for a buck-fifty a pop.
ReplyDeleteGreat points about using the small space and nor fighting through the limitations of it. I like what you said about the idea of bringing something in, rather than making it there! The space is tiny and has no running water capabilities at all.
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