PORT TOWNSEND — Two days after a youth coffeehouse moved out of its longtime uptown location, coffeehouse board members are considering three alternative spaces as prospective new homes for The Boiler Room.
The board this week hopes to negotiate a deal and eventually pick either a downtown and one of two potential uptown locations.
“We don’t have anything concrete at this point,” said Steve Boruch, a board member negotiating with property owners.
“But we are hopeful and we have been very favorably received.”
If negotiations are fruitful, the coffeehouse may reopen again uptown in the International Order of Odd Fellows Building on Lawrence Street, less than a block from the former Boiler Room location.
The Boiler Room was operated out of the Lawrence Street space for eight years, which ended Saturday after the building’s owner chose to lease the space to a restaurant next door.
Former restaurant site
Another option, mulled by Boruch, is the vacant former Day Star restaurant location on Water Street downtown.
The coffeehouse has also received support from a City Council member, Michelle Sandoval, a Realtor who offered space to the Boiler Room to store its portable espresso cart, “The Vroom.”
“I am trying to find a way to help The Boiler Room one way or another so they can have a home,” Sandoval said Monday.
Other Port Townsend residents also have offered storage space to temporarily shelter the coffeehouse’s belongings.