Hundreds of bidders compete for 18 state liquor stores
May 24, 2012, 11:42 AM | Updated: 1:34 pm
A second auction of state-owned liquor stores is over.
Bidders were competing for 18 stores from Vancouver to
Bellingham.
The liquor stores were auctioned for a second time because
the winning bidders did not pay their posted bid.
KING-5 reports hundreds of bidders showed
up to the liquor
board office on Thursday for a shot at one of the stores.
On June 1, the state’s nearly 80-year monopoly on the sale
of liquor ends. Voters approved I-1183 last fall allowing
stores larger than 10,000 square feet to sell liquor,
though smaller stores could sell liquor if there are no
other outlets within a certain area.
Bidders already have paid out $25.9 million for the rights
to 149 state stores that were auctioned last month.
The stores up for bid are:
-Seattle, 1201 2nd Ave.
-Tacoma, 3208 South 23rd St., Suite 1
-Marysville, 6608 64th St. NE, Suite C
-Enumclaw, 1040 Stevenson Ave. #B
-Seattle, 400 Broadway E
-Spokane, 5004 E Sprague Ave. #101
-Kent, 20514 108th Ave. SE
-Kent, 23219 Pacific Hwy S
-Bellevue, 15600 NE 8th St. #K-07
-Kenmore, 6820 NE Bothell Way
-Seattle, 118 NE 45th St.
-Tacoma, 7048 Pacific Ave.
-Lakewood, 8217 Steilacoom Blvd. SW
-Bellingham, 1255 Barkley Blvd. #107
-Ocean Shores, 171E Chance Alamer NE #C
-Kennewick, 731 N Columbia Center Blvd.
-Vancouver, 3425 SE 192nd Ave. #114
-North Bend, 320 SW Mt. Si Blvd. 109
