For those of you who missed last week's news about Skyefire Bakery
For almost the entire length of time that we have been operating the Blue Mountain Online Market, we have been selling delicious bread and other bakery items from Skyefire Bakery.
After four and a half years of operating a commercial and retail space in Airdrie, during some of the most unpredictable times in recent memory, Skyefire Bakery is shutting down.
It is sad for us to be losing a business relationship which really rounded out our Online offerings and was broadly popular with all of you, our customers. Our tables will not be the same without his delicious breads, bagels and sweet goods.
It is sadder yet that this is the end of a dream manifested into reality by one of my best friends, whom I first met when we started Grade One together in September of 1979. Scott Williams is a really good baker and a very kind and generous human being.
We have watched Skyefire weather the early challenges arising from an uncaring city of Airdrie bureaucracy which dug up Main St and made the bakery impossible to reach for nigh on six months, while offering no support to affected businesses.
We all know of the numerous and complex challenges the Covid pandemic brought, in this context crippling in-store retail sales and making it very difficult to keep staff. This on top of the extensive losses incurred as many restaurants were unable to cover their debts and went out of business, or simply chose not to pay their bills.
In the end, it was to a large extent the challenges coming from an indifferent corporate landlord, whose plan to expand the commercial building housing Skyefire Bakery involved almost completely eliminating all parking for the past six months, and, even worse, allowed the entire strip mall to look closed and under construction, that buried any hope that Skyefire would survive as a retail and commercial enterprise.
Given that there is now no independent bakery left between Calgary and Innisfail, for the time being we will not be selling bread on our Online Market. We have made contact with a couple of bakers and will let you all know as soon as we can when fresh bread will be returning to out Online Market.
Scott asked me to pass on his gratitude to those of you who loved his bread and bought it often.
Kris
For almost the entire length of time that we have been operating the Blue Mountain Online Market, we have been selling delicious bread and other bakery items from Skyefire Bakery.
After four and a half years of operating a commercial and retail space in Airdrie, during some of the most unpredictable times in recent memory, Skyefire Bakery is shutting down.
It is sad for us to be losing a business relationship which really rounded out our Online offerings and was broadly popular with all of you, our customers. Our tables will not be the same without his delicious breads, bagels and sweet goods.
It is sadder yet that this is the end of a dream manifested into reality by one of my best friends, whom I first met when we started Grade One together in September of 1979. Scott Williams is a really good baker and a very kind and generous human being.
We have watched Skyefire weather the early challenges arising from an uncaring city of Airdrie bureaucracy which dug up Main St and made the bakery impossible to reach for nigh on six months, while offering no support to affected businesses.
We all know of the numerous and complex challenges the Covid pandemic brought, in this context crippling in-store retail sales and making it very difficult to keep staff. This on top of the extensive losses incurred as many restaurants were unable to cover their debts and went out of business, or simply chose not to pay their bills.
In the end, it was to a large extent the challenges coming from an indifferent corporate landlord, whose plan to expand the commercial building housing Skyefire Bakery involved almost completely eliminating all parking for the past six months, and, even worse, allowed the entire strip mall to look closed and under construction, that buried any hope that Skyefire would survive as a retail and commercial enterprise.
Given that there is now no independent bakery left between Calgary and Innisfail, for the time being we will not be selling bread on our Online Market. We have made contact with a couple of bakers and will let you all know as soon as we can when fresh bread will be returning to out Online Market.
Scott asked me to pass on his gratitude to those of you who loved his bread and bought it often.
Kris