How the mighty have fallen:

[Dallas:] The new Washington Mutual Bank branch on Greenville Avenue never opened its doors.

And Monday, a wrecking crew was busy tearing down the mint-perfect building.

Constructed near the popular Central Market grocery store, the 3,500-square-foot branch bank building was finished more than a year ago, just in time for Washington Mutual to go kaput. The company was the country’s largest thrift when it failed in 2008 and was taken over by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, a fast-food chain, didn’t need the building’s special-purpose amenities (vaults, etc.), so they just razed the place. Another brand new WaMu branch in Dallas was demolished so that a QuikTrip service station could take its place. This is an apt allegory for our new economy.

Grant Brissey covered everything from hard news and technology, to music, film, and visual arts during his time working for The Stranger. Grant's work has also appeared at Geekwire, and in Billboard,...

8 replies on “WaMu Skeleton Makes Way for Chicken Fingers”

  1. We should expect to see a big increase in facilities related to Health with all the capital now flowing to services and technologies.

    In that sense, Obama’s plan is a 21st century business investment…taking static capital and injecting it into local communities who can start clinics, tech businesses, information co-operatives.

    I would expect wages at the low end to rise so its not just burger flippers any more.

  3. Chase just cancelled the WaMu donations to schools when you use your debit card.

    More profit for the CEOs, less money in the local economy.

    Time to check out BECU.

  4. Where I live, we already had Chase so when they took over WaMu, we ended up with 2 Chase branches across the street from each other in some locations. One former WaMu is now a car wash – they use the drive thru teller lanes for washing cars.

  5. Dream on 1. The Federal Government is broke and needs our taxes for the so-called healthcare to hold us over until we are “supposed” to see any healthcare benefits. It is JOKE.

  6. @5 – you can buy a Necklace to Protect against Socialism.

    I’m selling them for $49.95 plus shipping and handling.

    They also work against Tigers.

  7. All I can say is that it’s a good thing we’re all giving up disposable grocery bags, else there might not be enough room left in the landfill for all those BRAND NEW BUILDINGS.

  8. I think they missed a bet. They could have based a whole new advertising campaign around their Super Sekret Chicken Finger Formula, “so sensitive we keep it in a bank vault.”

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