Major Changes in Jack London Square
Jack London Square has been busy recently with lots of new tenants coming in, old tenants moving out, and one tenant changing their name.

If you haven't been to the Square in a while, it's worth checking out. The changes started quietly back in March with Time Out for Fun & Games departing, and then at the beginning of summer Heartsong Audio & Olga's Russian Gifts opened. More recently, Lan Vie opened across from Olga's with a lovely selection of women's Asian apparel, shoes, and handbags. Scotland Gifts has closed and reopened as A Taste of Asia with a large selection of Asian foods and spices. Subway opened next to Ben & Jerry's, while El Torito closed rather suddenly last weekend amidst restructuring of that restaurant chain and with construction on 66 Franklin coming in November. On September 1, Kendall's New York will open in the old Time Out space, featuring women's fashions. Next to leave is TGIFridays, set to close October 26th.

Another big change for Jack London Square is the newly added Twilight Tuesday Farmer's Market from 4pm-8pm (Tuesday's) with free parking until close in the Washington Street Garage. Twilight Tuesday's will continue through October 26, so support the farmer's and check it out!

The scaffolding in front of 66 Franklin has some interesting architecture being exposed that is a hint of what might be to come with restoration of that building. Check out the concrete arched window behind the scaffolding. It looks like there’s a beautiful building underneath all the metal siding, so it will be interesting to see how that project progresses. Rhonda Hirata, of Jack London Partners, says that they can see a W and an A, so they think it might say WAREHOUSE on the side.

All these changes tie in to the construction coming to Jack London Square as part of their Redevelopment Plan that was officially approved in July.


Posted 8/27/2004