Lucky Asian Market now open in North Spokane

 

If you're looking for quality Asian grocery items on the north side of Spokane, it's your lucky day as Lucky Asian Market just celebrated their grand opening late last week at 8915 N. Division, nearby The Y. The store is fairly small being converted out of a 1970's style gas station but packed full of merchandise and an excellent re-use of a historic building.

The store carries various Asian products from snacks, drinks, ice cream, dim sum, produce, seasonings, noodles and more that they bring over from Seattle every Thursday night. They plan to use the restocking on Thursday nights as a night market, usually from 7-9pm depending on the conditions on the commute back from Seattle. Info on the market and what they carry can be found on their social media pages via Facebook

Part bookstore and part listening lounge coming on 2nd in Downtown Spokane

 

Work has been underway for a while now for a unique new locally owned and operated business coming to 301 W. 2nd Ave in Downtown Spokane. During the daytime hours the space will operate as Good Medicine Apothecary doing teas and herbs, books, records and more. The business owner says this will be Spokane's first Black-Owned/Igneous-Owned bookstore.

At night that same space will transition over to a business called Culture. Culture will be a listening lounge where they plan to give education about the albums they are featuring and listening to them on a HiFi system to experience them like never before. They also plan to serve coffee and tea drinks, Americano, latte, espresso and matcha.

The business comes from Deekon Jones, who also founded and operates the local behavioral health agency, New Developed Nations which has offices at 3026 E. 5th Ave. in East Central Spokane. There is no opening date announced for the new business, but more info will likely be posted eventually on their Instagram page