If you've been downtown this last month, you'll notice the city has been tearing up King St. in an effort to beautify the street and curbs, and make it more flexible for special summer events, and also to add some foliage for aesthetic reasons. This will be happening all summer as they work one block at a time all the way from Gaukel St. to Frederick St. Completion is said to be the end of August, but will realistically probably go into October and maybe even next year. Meanwhile, we are open all the time despite all this chaos.

Actually, although our sales are already showing a marked decrease because of this, the access to our store is still quite easy. Our side of the street is clear to walk on, and you can park as usual on Centreblock (meter parking $) by approaching it from either Duke St. or across from City Hall on Young St. (use Google maps and type in 146 King St. W. Kitchener, Ontario to get the look of where we are situated downtown.)

So help us out in this down time as we build a better downtown, and come down and shop on our block. You'll be stimulating the economy, no less! (Is that a tacky sales pitch, or what?!)

Anyhow, there's some great stores on our block including Budd's Clothing (in business for more than 50 years!), Petsche's Shoes, City Pawnbrokers (with a great selection of new inexpensive guitars and wholesale jewelry), the Multicultural Centre, and Voila Hair Institute (hairstyling college with inexpensive haircuts).
There are numerous places to eat on our block, too, such as: Matter of Taste Cafe (best coffee in town), Bobby O'Brien's (roadhouse with a great patio), Lotusleaf Chinese food (which is excellent), Ye's Sushi (I hate Sushi, but everyone goes there and loves it), New York Pita Co.(great pita's), and Pizza Pizza.

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