Slide Show: Burien Is the New Burien
The porch behind Burien Press, the South End’s cool new gathering spot (all images by Nick C. Feldman)
All images by Nick C. Feldman
Burien Press baristas like Shannyn Fisher brew Cafe Vitta beans and offer pastries and breads from Macrina.
The space is modern, stylish, and industrial without feeling overdone, and the little pockets of comfortable, laptop-ready seating areas offer something for just about everyone. A selection of high-brow magazines and periodicals rounds out the mood.
Just across the street is the new Burien Library and the new city hall.
Just beyond the library and a multi-unit condo and mostly vacant shopping area is a sculpture park of sorts; it sits on a piece of land that was, until the recession hit, going to host a second condo unit. Some of the pieces have been controversial.
On the day photographer Nick C. Feldman took these images, blues musicians Dennis Blackmon and Gregory Moody were in Burien looking for performance venues.
One of my favorite home and garden shops, Grass Roots, is smack-dab in the middle of a little stretch of cobblestone road known as Olde Burien.
I’m thinking if "Burien: the New Brooklyn" doesn’t stick (let’s hope it doesn’t), the city might consider, "Burien: City of Sunny Back Porches."
Burien’s great for shopping, eating, drinking, and wandering, but don’t miss the South End’s beaches and waterfront green belts.
