In 2019, builder Greg Beale announced an ambitious new plan for the buildings at the corner of Main and Burnett streets. It was called The Livery, and it was supposed to be an artisan food marketplace — like a groovy food court.
Then COVID hit. Interest rates went up, and financing was hard to find.
Some pieces of this vision came together: Beale opened the stylish Livery Co-Work and a sleek new restaurant, Goldfinch, replaced longtime favorite K&L Bistro when its owners retired. But the small former UPS store and that big corner building—which once housed Round Table Pizza, a lawyer’s office, a mini-gym and the old Sonoma West Times & News office—sat empty for years…