Dolly Amend, Westwood Village liquor store Manager came to this new store from Burien where she was a manager for eight years. Jennifer Owens, lead clerk has worked with Amend for the past three years in Burien and came along to join her at the new store.
The long awaited Washington State liquor store at Westwood Village is set to open Friday at 10AM. Located on the north side of the mall between Staples and West Seattle Highline Eye Clinic the new store is modern and will carry over 1500 items including wines and beers.
The store will have four employees. Manager Dolly Amend has been working for the Washington State Liquor control board since 1991 and spent the last 8 years working as manager for the store in Burien. Her lead clerk is Jennifer Owens, also a transplant from the Burien store where worked for the past three years.
The store will have specialty wines, some from limited production runs and seasonal beers. "The state will sometimes buy some wines that's kind of hard to get and they will go in and buy a few cases and they will distribute it to a few stores. It's wine that you can't just walk into any grocery store and get," said Amend. Most of these will be Washington wines. The store will also have gift displays year round.
"I'm probably going to bring in some specialty items, maybe some Grappa and things like that every store doesn't carry," continued Amend, "I'm going to go down to one of our really big stores and just do a little shopping trip see what kind of cool stuff they have and transfer some in here, just to see what flies. We don't know what the market's going to be like."
Other people around the mall, mostly employees of other businesses have been stopping by as they prep the store inquiring about when it will be open, "Everyone here is really excited," said Owens, " Now Westwood Village is really more of a one stop shopping center."
The store will we be open 11 AM to 7 PM Monday through Thursday. 10 AM to 8 PM Friday and Saturday.
