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It was a hot, sunny, ice cream kind of Edmonds Sunday afternoon as Molly Moon’s ice creamery opened its doors at 6th Avenue South and Main Street, receiving a warm – and busy – reception by Edmonds ice cream lovers of all ages.
The aroma of baking waffle cones filled the street and drew crowds to the counter of the store, the first to officially open for business in the new Edmonds Main Street Commons complex.
Construction fencing is still up as crews complete the rest of the Commons – but that did nothing to deter a brisk business at Molly Moon’s, as counter staff filled cups and cones with their signature ice creams. The business prides itself on its pure, natural ice cream made from locally sourced ingredients. Many of those are obtained by directly partnering with local farmers and producers from jam makers to beekeepers to strawberry farmers to coffee roasters.
“Edmonds is our 10th location,” said owner and founder Molly Moon Neitzel, who dropped in to see how things were going in the new store. “We started in Wallingford 15 years ago, and we’ve grown through our commitment to supporting the communities where we do business.”
According to its website, Molly Moon’s company values include contributing 10% of profits back to the community through support of local food banks, nonprofits and community organizations that promote equity and social justice. The company is committed to renewable energy and sustainability, which even extends to using 100% compostable spoons, straws, containers and lids.
And – judging from Sunday’ reaction – the result is delicious ice cream and happy people.
As Moon says, “Our mission is to make the world better, one scoop at a time.”
The Molly Moon’s Edmonds location is open daily from noon till 11 p.m.
— Story and photos by Larry Vogel
I am surprised that city codes allowed opening part of an uncompleted building. There’s still construction all around Molly Moon’s.
It’s at 6th and Main, not 7th
Right you are — we will fix.
Great for patrons and ice cream; lousy for vehicles and parking, the latter of which seems to have been removed from the developer’s original program for this site.
Hi Phil, 6 parking spaces are still planned off 6th Avenue alley, most if not all will be designated takeout and short term parking. Also 4 new public parking spaces will be created along 6th ave. BD1 zone requires no parking, and I had originally planned art/ work lofts near the alley, but felt the development needed to have some parking. Hopefully the new businesses and offerings make up for the lack of parking, no development is perfect. Also planned bike racks along 6th Avenue will be installed soon.
Cheers
Mike
Your buildings are beautiful and certainly fit the old vibe of what Edmonds once was and still is to a great extent, thanks to the height limits and a concerted effort by many in town to keep some sort of reign on rampant residential development downtown. Talking about the availability or lack of it, suggests the subject of parking downtown is not going to go away until it is addressed with some solutions, like a dedicated parking facility of some sort for our visitors.
Going to the Post Office the other day I parked in the underground space there and noticed it was barely used and that seems like sort of a waste of valuable parking space for such a limited use – just to go to the post office. (This changes at peak times like Christmas, of course). Maybe it’s time to look at moving the Post Office again to some more central location, like Five Corners maybe, and use that parking space for general downtown visitor parking?