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Cordelia Cochran, visiting the penin-
sula from Tacoma while preparing for an
upcoming doctoral internship at a local
clinic, stopped by before heading out of
town. Cochran said that she looks forward
to doing homework at the new bakery. “It’s
really a great place,” she said.
An Ilwaco resident of four years, Per-
kins decided to recruit community mem-
bers to help her in revitalizing Ilwaco’s
center. She soon realized that the success
of her business hinged on daily foot traffi c.
Perkins now heads the Downtown
Ilwaco Revitalization Committee, a new
fi ve-member volunteer task force affi li-
ated with the city’s planning commission.
One of the group’s goals is for Ilwaco to
become a member of the Washington State
Main Street program, a decades long state
initiative managed by the Trust for Historic
Preservation that helps communities revi-
talize their downtowns.
“We have a wonderful downtown with
sidewalks and many historic buildings that
are just sitting vacant,” Perkins said. “We
really need storefronts to bring people into
our community and when we can do that
it serves all of our businesses and people
who live here,” she added.
Susan Yirku, executive director of the
Pacifi c County Economic Development
Council, welcomed the bakery. “Every-
body is extremely excited,” Yirku said.
“It’s a great addition to the area,” she
added.
Ilwaco is undergoing a period of transi-
tion, according to Yirku. “Historically the
peninsula just didn’t change much, which
was actually part of its charm, but we’re
offi cially discovered now,” she said, point-
ing to population growth. “The bakery is a
harbinger of things to come.”
Photos by Peter Korchnak
ABOVE: Ilwaco Bakery opened on the Long Beach Peninsula in early July. BELOW: A customer
smiles with a pastry outside of the new peninsula bakery.
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