A hotly anticipated expansion of Corina Bakery is set to take place this week.

We first broke the news last month that Corina Bakery and owner Molly Ott had taken over the space next to the Grand Cinema that most recently housed Mineola and Mavi Contemporary Art Gallery. Now, Ott says the new space is ready, and will open this Wednesday for business.

The new location, just around the corner from Corina's current home on S. Sixth Ave., will nearly double the bakery's seating capacity and is hoped to double or triple the bakery's ability to fulfill wedding cake orders.

"One of the primary reasons to do the move is we didn't physcially have enough space to do wedding cakes," Ott told us last month, adding that the bakery is currently maxed out at about 10 wedding cakes per weekend.

Ott says she hopes to be able to do more collaboration with new next-door neighbor the Grand Cinema, from staying open until the start of the theater's final showing each evening to potentially offering specials related to the movies currently playing at the Grand Cinema.

The discussion of the fate of Tacoma's Old City Hall is perhaps one of the most frustrating for Tacoma-lovers, who long for someone to do something, anything with the historic building to keep it from going the way of the ill-fated Luzon Building.

The building currently stands empty, more than a year after a broken sprinkler pipe flooded it with major water damage.

Now, help could be on the way, via a partnership between Dwell Magazine and Sub-Zero called "rethinking preservation."

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