Marcus Lalario never used to want keys to his businesses. “I would always end up at one of my bars after hours drinking.” Usually he’d hand them off to a general manager. “Just to remove the temptation.” But after the pandemic’s onset, his new director of operations at Lil Woody’s gave him a set of keys to each of his burger joint’s three standalone locations. He kept them. Lalario, the onetime nightlife entrepreneur, had put his partying days behind him.
The newest key in Lalario’s collection is oversize and brass. It grants him access to a vintage brick building on Occidental Square, the prettiest block in Seattle’s oldest neighborhood.
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