As if in answer to my mild disbelief that JoAnn’s fabric store was capable of holding anyone’s interest as the main anchor at Crossroads Mall, I was happy to learn that Pier One has decided it’s going to move into the old JoAnn spot. They’ll be moving in early next year. I can’t imagine that Pier One would keep two stores in Bellevue, so I can only imagine that they’re moving out of that horrible location on Bellevue Way — the one with absolutely no parking, that’s just around the corner from Cost Plus. In my mind, Cost Plus and Pier One are pretty much identical, except one has food and parking and one has no food and no parking. Both are extremely cool to wander around in, and occasionally one can pick up something cheap and cool as a gift around the holidays. Pier One moving into Crossroads can only make Crossroads that much more cool, at least in my eyes.
I picked up that little tidbit of news from the “Bellevue Reporter,” a new wad of newspaper that’s being shoved into my mailbox every two weeks. It took me over two weeks to notice that I was getting a free newspaper. That’s how often I check my mailbox. The King County Journal tells me that “The free paper, which will be delivered via mail to 28,000 single-family households in Bellevue on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, will focus exclusively on news, issues, people, places and events that are uniquely relevant to residents of Bellevue, Publisher John Perry said.” I was therefore able to read two free newspapers at once, although calling it “reading” would be an insult. I just flipped around in the paper, and decided that nothing was relevant to me at this time, except Pier One.