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Board game cafe, crepery to fill shuttered Green Zebra space on Division
 green-zebra-location by Ryan Miller, on Flickr
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2025/01/17/capes-crepes-division-green-zebra.html
By Sara Edwards – Commercial Real Estate reporter, Portland Business Journal
Jan 17, 2025
Updated Jan 17, 2025 5:30pm PST
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A board game, crepery and boba tea cafe are set to transform a former Southeast Portland grocery store.
Capes & Crepes will open in the shuttered Green Zebra store at 4990 S.E. Division St. with board games, gaming rooms and food offerings.
The project is spearheaded by Portland couple Karim Soliman, a chief financial officer at a local tech startup, and Chelsea Hughes, a microbiologist in her last year of completing a Ph.D. at Portland State University, who had a dream to open a family-friendly board game cafe.
“We want a place where people get to hang out and bring more families and new players into the hobby in a way that’s a little bit more welcoming,” Soliman said.
The former grocery store space is around 7,000 square feet. The space’s entrance will house shelves for board games to be rented or purchased and tables for open seating.
The northeast corner will be the restaurant, which will serve crepes and boba teas among other offerings.
Two private game rooms will be in the southwest portion of the space, with a large tournament space for large groups in the middle.
Each section will also be decorated with a different theme to add a “magical feeling” to the space.
The cafe is expected to open later this spring.
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