As many of you know, we’ve been going through some transitions at The RE Store. For those of you that may have missed the news, after much deliberation the Board of RE Sources for Sustainable Communities (our parent nonprofit) decided to close the Seattle store as of June 13th to focus our efforts on serving NW
Washington at our Bellingham location.
We are incredibly appreciative of the support that Seattle (and the Ballardcommunity in particular) has shown us over the past 15 years by way of shopping at the store, bringing us your donations, taking part in our workshops, attending our Recycled Arts Shows – and generally helping us spread the culture of reuse.
However – with all endings, there are new beginnings, and we are incredibly excited to pass on the news that the managers of The RE Store in Seattle have pulled together to open up a new reuse center – Ballard Reuse. The store will ensure that the North Seattle community retains a used building materials store and will give the community the same service and commitment to keeping materials out of the landfill that they’ve come to expect. It officially opened June 16th – same location, same phone numbers and same friendly faces you’ve seen at The RE Store in Seattle over the last 10+ years. We are happy to support this new reuse store and we wish them all the best.