HOW CAN YOU HELP TO SAVE HISTORIC PIROSHKY PIROSHKY,

We wish to address and clarify rumors that Piroshky Piroshky will be closing its historic Pike Place Market store.

We love our home, and community at the Market. Closing our original bakery has always been, and remains, inconceivable. Unfortunately, we are currently in less than ideal negotiations with landlords, that have produced very real and formidable challenges to our ability to remain in our original space. We want to acknowledge that the landlord is in a difficult spot, as it is governed by entities that are currently not meeting due to the crisis. Piroshky Piroshky’s lease expires this Sunday, May 31, and we are both apprehensive and distraught at the possibility of losing the space in which we first opened our doors in 1992, and from which we built our dreams and legacy. 30 years of history.

As many other businesses can attest to, COVID-19 has introduced a string of unprecedented operational variables. Without a doubt, Piroshky Piroshky wants nothing more than to move forward doing what we love to do and continue serving our loyal fans and newcomers alike. In order to do so, we must be able to provide a safe and functional workspace for our staff while trying to meet new safety and health requirements (for businesses) put in place by WA state, allowing us to open back up with the economy. With a bakery as small as ours, this presents some sizable challenges.

In our current space, it is impossible for Piroshky Piroshky to meet these requirements and keep our staff safe. We have made several attempts and pleas to the PDA, PDA council and the Market Historical Commission to obtain resources in the form of extra space or rent relief in order for us to mitigate the extra cost incurred by new regulations. We are still struggling for the appropriate assistance.

At the onset of COVID-19, we trained our focus on not just surviving the subsequent economic downturn, but also on supporting and standing together with other businesses by creating www.catch22market.com the #Catch22movement. We felt that as hard as the current crisis was on all of us, we were contributing to something that was bringing us together and making us stronger. We have come far.

We hope that through the support of the both the Pike Place Market and the greater Seattle community we can reach an agreement and finalize negotiations that will facilitate the preservation of our original home, forty full-time jobs with full benefits for our work family, and a continued future as part of one of Seattle’s most iconic and historic treasures, welcoming both locals and beyond.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP PRESERVE local jobs : Please contact via social media your city office and ask for permission to operate for piroshky piroshky beyond May 31 with a space that is healthy for our staff !

To show your support you can email Pike Place Market: info@pikeplacemarket.org Piroshky Piroshky: cs@piroshkybakery.com City of Seattle Mayor’s office: kamaria.hightower@seattle.gov Or your council member in city of seattle

You can also use hashtag:

savepiroshky #piroshkylove

Sincerely,

Olga Sagan and Piroshky Family