Banner in the Green Cafe's window.The Green Cafe opened today at 4pm, to a throng of mostly college students who packed the place with a line out the door and around the corner of College and Dryden. I didn’t have the patience to wait for the “LOT OF FREE TASTING” but I did catch a quick listen of the “DJ MUSIC.” A friend told me the generously gratis food was delish, and the place looks fab in general — three words: shiny red stoolthings. It’s truly refreshing to finally fill one of Collegetown’s pathologically empty storefronts — let’s hope this one weathers the whims of college kids and the oddly business-unfriendly regulations of the City of Ithaca. Click through for an inside view.
This morning, before the grand opening.Tags: business, collegetown, Green cafe, yay
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LGEvan2007
March 29th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
You’re right, it’s nice to see that storefrotn active again! The place was home to a Bank of America branch from the early 1980s up until the first part of this decade.
I think this has been the first time in years that all four corners are occupied. The new Kraftees Building was vacant for years (it used to be a convenience store), and the Starbuck’s Building was built in 2006 on the site of a dilapidated oversized house. The last corner used to be home to a Kraftee’s-type store until it was demolished for the current (Ciaschi Corner) building in 1988.