MARTINSBURG — The Storage on King invited doable distributors to go to for the primary time earlier this week for a possibility to ask questions and get a greater thought of what the place will appear like when it’s completed.
Diego Losada, the proprietor of The Storage on King, defined his imaginative and prescient for the outdated Dunne and Siebert constructing. He plans to rework it right into a meals corridor, the place folks can collect collectively and revel in some good meals.
“We would like it to be a spot the place folks can come and have enjoyable,” Losada mentioned. “It’s vital that it’s a spot the place folks can carry their children and have time as a household.”
Losada defined the format he has deliberate to the doable tenants. On one aspect of the storage, there will probably be seven completely different meals stalls that align with the home windows. On the opposite aspect, there will probably be seating and a stage the place they may maintain occasions or have bands play music as folks eat and stroll round. In the summertime, they’ll open up the storage door and permit folks to come back in and seize a chunk to eat.
One of many potential tenants contains Latoya Rideout-Mills, who owns Luna Cereal Bar.
“Cereal bars are fairly widespread throughout the nation,” Rideout-Mills mentioned. “There isn’t something like that right here in Martinsburg but, so I made a decision to begin one.”
Along with cereal, she sells others sweets and cereal deserts like donuts with cereal on high. She plans to have a pop-up store on Dec. 17 at The Hub in Martinsburg however wish to have one thing extra everlasting sooner or later.
“I actually like that (The Storage on King) is catering to start-up eating places,” Rideout-Mills mentioned. “Companies don’t want to fret about getting home equipment or something like that. It helps us as we get our enterprise began. It’s additionally one thing new and recent.”
The Storage on King hopes to open within the spring of 2023 however continues to seek for doable tenants. For extra data, go to https://www.thegarageonking.com/ or go to their Fb web page.
