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Ivar’s plans to open new seafood bar in Issaquah

Jul 5, 2018, 8:05 AM | Updated: 8:10 am

Ivar's...

Bob Donegan, president of Ivar’s Seafood Restaurants, stands below a Native American artwork in one of the company's restaurants in Seattle. (AP File Photo/Elaine Thompson)

(AP File Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Despite losing its space at Sea-Tac Airport and selling its flagship property on Seattle’s waterfront last year, Ivar’s plans to expand to Issaquah.

The Puget Sound Business Journal reports Ivar’s President Bob Donegan has been trying to get a foothold at Issaquah’s Lake Sammamish Center for 14 years. His time will come in October when the new 65-seat seafood bar is expected to open.

Donegan told PSBJ that the biggest challenge to expanding is the cost of real estate in the Puget Sound region. What once was $35 to $40 per square foot is not $75 to $80.

Ivar’s hasn’t opened a new location since Bothell in 2013; Puyallup before that in 2011. Donegan told the Puget Sound Business Journal he’ll continue to look for potential locations in Redmond, Mill Creek, Bellevue’s Factoria neighborhood, Newcastle, Silverdale and Olympia.

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