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A few weeks ago, we wrote about Archie McPhee’s and the people who go there. Today, we learned that our beloved landmark is moving out of Ballard after the property owner decided to let the building lease expire.

The multi-block property, owned by the Jacobsen estate, stretches from Market Street to 24th Avenue Northwest and another block north to 56th Street. Apparently, the landlords offered a month to month option for commercial tenants, but Mcphee’s declined the offer and is looking to relocate in Seattle.

There is no word yet on what the property owners will do with the space. The estate trustee, Bob Jacobsen Jr, was quoted in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer saying, “It’s in my best interest to do what’s best for the interests of the rest of the people in the estate–I’ve got brothers and sisters. I can’t encumber the property with a long-term lease. Maybe the best thing to do is to keep it. Maybe it isn’t. But it’s not for sale now, and I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

But we all know what happens when leases expire and businesses move out; condos move in.