{"id":22640,"date":"2023-12-11T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22640"},"modified":"2023-12-18T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T03:43:39","slug":"jin-jin-chinese-restaurant-469-sunset-boulevard-2-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22640","title":{"rendered":"Jin Jin Chinese Restaurant, 469 Sunset Boulevard: 2 December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was not aware of Jin Jin<\/i> tucked away here in the struggling Capitol Square<\/a> shopping center, but they apparently closed on 2 December according to their facebook<\/a>. As far as I can tell, this closure brings an end to any activity at the plaza. Since their note mentions that their lease was ending, I can't help but wonder if the owners have been getting everybody out in advance of redeveloping the property which abuts an up-and-coming area (with the only negative being the chicken plant when the wind is wrong..). Given that even the plaza's roadside marquee sign has been let to go to pot, I suspect something like that is happening.<\/p>\n

The other thing about the property which strikes me, aside from it being all vacant, is the number of payphones, mostly not vandalized (though not currently connected) along the walkway. I mean, I suppose '3' is not a high number historically, but it's the most I've seen in years.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the strip's real-estate brochure, which mentions none of this, but does show a number of former tenants, and the roadside sign.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Justin)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 18 December 2023<\/b> -- Here is the plaza sign in happier times circa 2016:<\/p>\n

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I was not aware of Jin Jin tucked away here in the struggling Capitol Square shopping center, but they apparently closed on 2 December according to their facebook. As far as I can tell, this closure brings an end to any activity at the plaza. Since their note mentions that their lease was ending, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3889,1281,47,3,374,57],"class_list":["post-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-469-sunset-boulevard","tag-capitol-square","tag-chinese","tag-restaurants","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}