The Market Arms on hold, waiting for permits

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Things are at a standstill at Market Street’s newest pub, The Market Arms.

John Bayliss, the owner of The George & Dragon in Fremont and soon-to-be-pub on the corner of 24th & Market says he submitted plans about four weeks ago and is now waiting on the building permit. “There was also a delay where we had to wait two weeks for an interview with a city planning department engineer before we could submit the plans,” he tells us, “The process for change of use is always a bit trickier.” He says they anticipate opening three months after they begin work. As he told us before, it “won’t be a high end bar, just a casual English pub.” (Thanks bamm314 for posting the question in the forum!)

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24 thoughts to “The Market Arms on hold, waiting for permits”

  1. Permits Schermits… we have a constitutional right to bear arms!

    “A well lubricated Mob, being necessary to the belligerent discourse of a free neighborhood, the right of the people to drink and get drunk, shall not be infringed.”

    Call your council member today….Tell those fat cats at city hall to give us our fully automatic boozy now, or well throw the bums out on election day!

  2. How will you have Bare Arms if all the hipsters never leave Ballard on weekends!?

    So a casual English pub…. peas with everything?!? =|

  6. By nature, the DPD is always scrambling to catch up with the times. 2-3 years ago they were training a whole pile of folks to keep up w/ the boom, then had to pretty much lay them all off since then. I was down there 2 weeks ago, and it was a friggin' ghost town.

  7. If this will be truly English, you'll see only peas, but dessicated, well-done red meat. Overcooked vegetables. Cucumbers in vinegar & salt, with olives and radishes served before every holiday meal. On the other hand, the best pie crust and mashed potatoes you could ever hope for.

    There's a reason why the English tend to drink a lot. It takes quite a bit to wash down that dry, chewy beef, and to make one feel better about being forced to eat something so awful.

    Oh, and will the pub make you stay there until you finish your meal? Of course, back in those days, I was a kid, so a pint of Guinness was never an option…

  8. Ah, well, fortunately my Irish kin consider Guinness a meal in and of itself. Irish food may actually be worse than English food. But whatever is on the menu I'm sure there will be plenty of English and Irish beer and enough soccer to distract from runny peas and pale pasties. :-)

  10. You would think that with the economy in a slump like it is the city would be quicker about turning around permits like this to get businesses up and running.

  11. Half the pubs in London have been bought up by French chefs; that stereotype (at least in Kensington) are old history. “The Sun in Splendour” was one that was featured in Gourmet Magazine.

    I love the old Guiness ads: “Guiness, it's good for you!” “Guiness, a loaf of bread in every bottle!” etc.

  13. I liked those ads too! I grew up hearing how doctors often specified that their patients be given “a glass of stout” with their evening meal. It fortified AND relaxed them.

    But those ads also remind me of what was printed on the inside of Good & Plenty boxes: “Candy is good food…Eat some every day.”

    I'd rather have me a nice glass of stout.

  14. The new space looks like a very odd place to have a bar/pub. The G and D seems to attract the FC followers who arent known for being quiet and peaceful.

  15. It's on a busy corner traffic-wise. The people who live over there are not used to quiet and peaceful, anyway.
    I live right on 15th, same level of traffic. You could host a soccer (ok, Futball) game on the corner and I doubt I'd even notice.

  16. Oh, please hurry! Being underemployed makes one long for a cold one served in a festive atmosphere within staggering distance of home. (On the other hand, when I was fully employed I longed for those things too.)

  17. But, it shares a wall with a veterinary clinic. It's not my vet, but I wouldn't appreciate noisy neighbors if I'm in an exam room with a sick pet.

  18. Maybe a little loud on game days, but if the noise of a hundred barking dogs doesn't bother your animal a little Pub noise isn't going to make things worse. In my experience, vets aren't quiet places either.
    I make the promise to be a quiet Pub patron, though.

  22. As a man from Stoke-on-Trent in the UK and now reciding in Ballard with my American wife a English pub would be great and some English food also. As for Norabells comments. Their is nothing wrong with English food. Our diet is healthy than yours. Hence we are all slimmer!

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