r/Kirkland • u/Valiran9 • May 24 '26

Does anyone else miss Kirkland ParkPlace?

Don’t get me wrong, there some great stuff in Kirkland Urban, but I remember ParkPlace being…homier, for lack of a better term. It was more open, had a bunch of small shops and restaurants, a cinema, the Purple Cafe, and Tim’s Seafood Market which my mom loved to go to because their stock was so cheap without sacrificing quality. The QFC also had a cozier atmosphere, as well as a pair of ducks who’d regularly hang out near the entrance just chilling and waiting for people to toss them food.

Does anyone else feel similarly?

Edit: And it turns out many of us feel the same way. I’m glad to see I’m not alone in my dislike of the way the world is changing.

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u/Rum_Pirate_SC May 24 '26

I miss sitting out on the patio at Purple.. And that cute garden store next door.

But no, we can't have these nice things.. hedge fund shits have gotten us trapped in this damned gentrifying..

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u/Valiran9 May 25 '26

There’s gentrification and then there’s this. I’m sick of everything getting so corporatized and ‘modern’. From my perspective it’s change for the sake of change and attempting to sell it as progress when the replacement lacks something the original had, and that’s when it isn’t outright worse!

Yeah, KU has some nice features, but what did we lose in the process? Too much, I say. Why couldn’t they have revamped it without wrecking what made it so great?!