Out with the old, in with the new

MEDICAL LAKE — When she first saw the space at 104 E. Lake St. in Medical Lake — the trees in the courtyard, the apartment, the offices and the old tavern space — Jessica Glenn wondered why a space with so much potential was sitting vacant and unused.

“I’m a sucker for potential,” she said.

After her mother, Mary Isabel, or “Bell,” passed away in 2018, Glenn was full of undirected energy, so she bought the building and began to change it.

And after over a year of work, the transformation of the iconic Wagon Wheel Tavern at the corner of Lefevre and Lake streets is nearly complete.

While centur...