BIZNOTE FOLLOWUP: If you were wondering about Five Guys …

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The question’s come up in comment discussions about other on-the-way restaurants — is Five Guys still coming to Westwood Village? It’s been five and a half months since we first reported the burger chain had appeared on the shopping center’s site plan. Since then, as we’ve replied in those comment discussions and email, the plan to convert the former Payless Shoe Source space has been proceeding through the building-permit system. And now for the first time, there’s a visible sign that Five Guys is indeed on the way – what you see above is what we noticed while driving through Westwood Village this afternoon. The company has yet to respond to inquiries about the timeline, so we don’t know how soon. The chain already has more than a dozen locations around the central Puget Sound area; closest one is in Ballard.

Buddy November 16, 2022 (7:57 pm)

Maybe they should also add a tiny police community police station to combat crime in the surrounding area in West Wood Village, I bet that the people who live around there and shop there would give two thumbs up for that being put into one of the many vacant buildings there

1994 November 16, 2022 (9:16 pm)

How about bike or horse mounted patrols at WWV? They could ride on over from the horse barn over on 8th Ave. Anything would help.
East Coast Cynic November 16, 2022 (9:28 pm)

This!
WW Resident November 16, 2022 (9:36 pm)

Hard pass!
Westwood November 16, 2022 (9:41 pm)

No thanks. I feel perfectly safe visiting WV.
- Adam November 16, 2022 (11:08 pm)
  
  Soooooo, no police presence because YOU feel safe?
  - Brian November 17, 2022 (7:16 am)
    
    The police don’t make me feel any safer when they’re around either so there’s at least two of us.
- Neighbor November 17, 2022 (2:43 am)
  
  You couldn’t pay me to roll the dice on my life down there.
  - Another Neighbor November 17, 2022 (11:05 am)
    
    Imagine thinking you’re risking your life every time you visit Staples.
foop November 16, 2022 (10:21 pm)

Nope, I walk to QFC and other places there regularly and never have issues feeling safe. We don’t need a police state.
- Better Dead Than... November 17, 2022 (9:02 am)
  
  Get real Foop. A slightly increased police presence to promote public safety isn’t even remotely in the same universe as your hysterically hyperbolic “police state”. Anti-police activists like yourself should be required to take long night-time walks through un-policed neighborhoods to sharpen your opinions.
- RH November 17, 2022 (11:10 am)
  
  Same! I’m a woman who walks to WV multiple times a week for groceries and have never felt unsafe once. Y’all need to calm down and think about why you’re actually afraid to be in company with people from different walks of life than you.

Friend O'Dinghus November 16, 2022 (8:04 pm)

Yum!

Dp November 17, 2022 (2:10 am)

There is a business there that lock their doors during evening hours as they are afraid of people just coming in.

Becca November 17, 2022 (6:00 am)

I’m thinking the Tukwila Five Guy’s is closer than Ballard.

WSB November 17, 2022 (11:22 am)

I used the company’s location list and map. From 98116, Ballard is 6 miles, Tukwila is 10 miles. Obviously that would change if you’re on the south end (as are we) but I had to choose something as a baseline.

shotinthefoot November 17, 2022 (8:23 am)

another boring chain in a dying mall full of boring chains. next, please.

Bs November 17, 2022 (10:03 am)

Not as good as in and out, but still pretty damn good

Friend O'Dinghus November 17, 2022 (10:04 am)

I think we should follow the advise of several posters here and have nothing at all new….ever. We should plow down WWV, and have police horseback patrols so some folks can TRY to feel safe, but it won’t work because, to at least some extent, the world around you is what you make of it. I am ashamed by some of the comments here and suspect its just the garden variety trolls who have decided to take up residence here in the West Seattle Blog’s comment section. I wish you would all just move away and make room for more positive thinking folks. Will you please?? I’m sure there is a place somewhere that will fulfill all of your expectations with zero compromises. Y’all should go find it instead of just crapping all over everything and each other all the time. Bye.

Ryan H November 17, 2022 (10:46 am)

If you’re scared to go out, stay home and order delivery if that’s what you need to do. However, I’m looking forward to 5 Guys. Not sure how comments always turn in a strange direction rather than commenting on what the story is actually about. People have too much time on their hands. This is much better served by “I hate 5 Guys, no thanks” or “I love 5 Guys, can’t wait” or something in between rather than discussing police presence at Westwood in an unrelated place!