If it feels as though your favorite restaurants are disappearing, you’re not imagining things. Rising food and labor costs are contributing factors. But there’s another, lesser-known reason: rising rents.
Now, the city hopes to give business owners a way to have ownership of their spaces, too. It has already helped one restaurant make a comeback.
For Seattle restaurateur Donna Moodie, hospitality is in her blood. She can’t walk away from it. She closed her restaurant, Marjorie, after two decades in business, but not long after, Moodie announced Marjorie’s comeback, in a new location…