Ava Roasteria in Beaverton - Nathan’s new office
If you are in Beaverton, check out Ava Roasteria, Beaverton’s new coffee house. It is beautiful! Free wireless, rich coffee, and perhaps, the new center of Beaverton, a great place to meet people. It also happens to be my new office. Come visit me and I will treat you to a cup.
The owner, an Iranian woman, specializes in purchasing contaminated properties, transforming them into beautiful retail spaces. For years, in the center of Beaverton on Hall and 2nd Avenue, a closed gas station littered the landscape, complete with a chain link fence around its perimeter. Then this industrious woman secured the lot and built a paradise. Actually she hired an Iranian man who has designed and personally crafted the place - fountains, slate tile, and fireplace outside. Inside his wood and copper work are quintessential northwest decor. If you can’t visit me in this lovely setting, at least you can appreciate these two individuals who work to take a polluted, broken place and turn it into an Eden.
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Driving past, I eyed this establishment and did not see office space connected. Did I miss something or is this a joke?
Is this humor about having an office there? I drove by it and did not see office space connected with it.
I am not joking about the office space. As a pastor, I meet with a good number of people daily, and so I have been arranging for people to meet me at a table in Ava. With free Wi-fi, I can sit at that same table, and complete any number of tasks. More and more I observe people using coffee houses as office space. It makes sense and it is so much more pleasant than a cubicle in a commercial or light industrial building!
nathan.