Boiler Room percolates back into action on Christmas Eve
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The youth-oriented, nonprofit coffee house opened its doors on Christmas Eve and has already had Port Townsend youths rushing to get inside.
"We've been open less than a week and already have consistently more people than when we were Uptown," said Boiler Room manager Becky Shipley.
The Boiler Room started 13 years ago in the basement of a downtown building -- literally a boiler room -- then moved Uptown on Lawrence Street eight years ago.
The Boiler Room's Uptown lease was not renewed in May by its landlord to allow a neighboring business to expand, which some Boiler Room regulars recall as "heart-wrenching" and "wretched."
"A lot of the kids felt like their whole world was being taken away," said Shipley.
But that world began to be recreated on July 4 when the 11-member board of directors made a $475,000 deal to obtain a permanent site on Water Street where the one-story Day Star Cafe was located.
"This ensures a future for the Boiler Room, if we can pull it off -- owning our own business," said Shipley.
Last modified: December 29. 2005 9:00PM