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JANUARY 15, 2020
VOL. 101, NO. 3
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TROPHY CUPCAKES OPENS QUEEN ANNE LOCATION
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Photo by Brandon Macz Jennifer Shea opened her sixth Trophy Cupcakes location in Queen Anne just before Christmas. She opened her first shop in 2007.
By Brandon Macz
QA&Mag News editor
Trophy Cupcakes founder Jennifer Shea said expanding her business is a delicate dance. While she’s been courted about growing outside the Seattle area, she said staying local allows her to maintain quality while not putting a strain on her team. She found her new Queen Anne shop
space while browsing commercial real estate sites. “It’s almost like people who are always looking on Zillow for new houses,” Shea said. Unlike her other five Trophy Cupcake locations, the Queen Anne shop is smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood, where Aegis Living once ran a Queen Bee Café at 223 W. Galer St.
“The space, when it presented itself, it just felt like a slam dunk,” Shea said. Having mostly been built out, it only took three weeks to change the space to Trophy Cupcakes colors, put in a cupcake case and make a few other slight modifications. Opening the new location just before Christmas had its own challenges, TROPHY, Page 12
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Civil justice advocate, Queen Anne resident generates strong endorsements ahead of launch By Brandon Macz
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Washington 36th District House candidate Liz Berry launched her campaign after spending the past month earning endorsements from progressive Seattle councilmembers and state legislators. Having spent part of her career helping to get women on the Legislature while president of the National
Women’s Political Caucus of Washington, Berry said she’d long desired to serve herself. She saw a window of opportunity in December, when Rep. Gael Tarleton announced her bid for secretary of state. She’s currently serving her third term in the House of Representatives. “It was just a month of hard work,” Berry said, “and I worked during the holidays, and I called up a lot of people and said, ‘I’m going to do
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Photo by Brandon Macz Liz Berry is director of the Washington State Association of Justice and a Queen Anne resident. She is the first person to declare their candidacy for the House of Representatives representing the 36th District.
this.’” Berry is the first person to declare their candidacy for the Position 2 seat in the 36th District, which includes
Queen Anne, Magnolia and Ballard. She made her decision official after the holidays. BERRY, Page 2
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