Almost there!
The lease is singed!!!
This is not what it really looks like, it’s not green, not yet, and when it is it probably won’t be this shade, but hey, I liked it so this is my photoshopped version of what it might look like. It’s on the northeast side of the Ross Island Bridge right in the center of Portland, complete with a parking lot! It’s nearly 10,000 square feet so we are going to be able to spread out and organize like never before. Coming from a space less than a third of that you can only imagine how excited we all are to move in and not be bumping into each other and the socks every time we turn around.
We’ll be moving in July. Once we have everything set up we’ll start getting our shop ready, it will be small with very limited hours and only a fraction of our stock available to the public, but we will also be offering items that don’t make it onto the site as well as test runs for ideas and future products. Pickup for web orders will also be an option. That billboard at the top, it won’t really have our name on it. We’ve been told it is the most expensive billboard in the Portland Metro area due to the high traffic volume on Powell Blvd, it usually has a bank or OMSI or the Oregon Zoo or a radio station advertised on it. I think a neon sign would be beautiful on this building, but we haven’t looked very far into that option or the numerous others we get to start working on as soon as all of this is finalized, but we are now so close I couldn’t possibly wait another moment before telling you. More news to come…
June 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Yay! So exciting!
June 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
WOW! Fantastic!
Are you hiring people for the store?!
I would love to work there, I will apply in no time if you are.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Oh! That is sooooo fabulous! Congratulations! ~pops champagne~
June 6th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Wow! What a fun storefront shape. Combined with that nice little strip of garden in front and all those windows, I’m sure your head is just buzzing with ideas.
Super-duper congrats on finding a space!
June 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Many thanks!!! yes, very much abuzz, the things we could do with that awesome building, not sure how much our budget can handle this summer, but some fresh paint and landscaping will go a long way.
Yes, we will be needing to hire a couple more people, but not til mid July or so…
Amanda, we’ll be writing you… ~:)
This is a mere 10 blocks from where we lived during the first four years of the site formerly known as Fetishize Me. I’m toying with calling the sock shoppe Rose City Sock Dreams, we’ll be right across the street from the Rose City Vet Clinic Where Jake & Lola’s fav doctors work. Not sure if that is too many roses in one spot, but we are in the city of roses after all, and it just sounds so nice…
June 6th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Would I be thinking too highly of myself to hope you’re referring to me..? The Amanda you interviewed last time you were hiring.
June 7th, 2007 at 3:27 am
never too many roses….
congrats….
beautiful….
love the curve….
June 7th, 2007 at 4:57 am
There’s a radio jock here in NY named Wendy Williams. Whenever a woman does something good she says “sisters be doin’ for ourselves”, and so you are. We know behind every strong woman there is a strong man so congrats to Bsti too.No matter what I do I can’t seem to make a paragraph. That’s basic html:( !
June 7th, 2007 at 6:35 am
So proud!!! I love the curve of the place, too. Squee!
June 7th, 2007 at 6:54 am
YAY! :)
June 7th, 2007 at 8:41 am
CONGRATULATIONS!!! How wonderful and exciting! *does a little happy dance for you*
June 7th, 2007 at 10:25 am
egg on my face Amanda…
We’ll be happy too interview you again, I was actually referring to the first Amanda who commented on this post, sorry for the confusion!
June 7th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Congrats!!! :)
June 7th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Ooh! Great!
June 7th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Heh.. No. :) I figured I was wrong but I could hope cant I?
June 7th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Woooo hoo! More space for pwetty sockies!!!!!!
June 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
sigh that is sweet indeed! I love the shape, very soxy!!
June 12th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Today we had a meeting there to discuss paint colors and flooring options, sooo exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I need a lesson in geography. My husband just informed a very excited me that we couldn’t be any further from your new store when we move unless we actually moved out of the United States. I’m so very sad.
Socks that won’t make it onto the website??? Wha wha whaaaaaaa????
Yay for your sock store!! I think it’s just divine!!
June 20th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Yahoo! I’m in Portland about once every two months. I will definitely stop in.
July 15th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
OH YAY!!! I’m so very excited. and so very close to me, within walking distance even! I think you’ll be seeing me a lot.