The new Swedish Automotive at 35th and Kenyon will hold an open house on Sept 25 featuring food, refreshments, blue grass music and classic Swedish cars on display. The event is open to the public.
Swedish Automotive, the long time scandinavian car repair facility on 35th Ave. S.W. has nearly completed construction of their new home at 35th and Kenyon Street. "We're just waiting on Seattle City LIght to put power to the building, which is supposed to happen tomorrow (Friday Sept 10) and Monday," said owner Dave Winters, "then we should get our final permits Wednesday and at that point we can actually start operations down there. I could start moving stuff now but we can't operate from there until we have our final certificate of occupancy."
The West Seattle Herald's previous coverage of the company's project is here.
The company plans to move all equipment, supplies, parts, tools and everything else the weekend of Sept. 18 and 19 and "hopefully be back open and in business on the 20th," said Winters.
The company is holding an Open House on Sept. 25th from noon to 4:00 p.m. Winters said he plans to have Down Home Catering supply some food for the event and a "customer of ours who is in a blue grass band" will play for a couple of hours.
They also hope to have some classic Volvo and Saab vehicles on display for something of a Swedish Classic Car show during the event.
Winters explained that this is just a way to show everybody the new shop and say hello. They were delayed a week in getting the power to the building and clearing the last permit hurdles but it's now likely the shop will be open according to plan.
