After many weeks of voting, local nonprofit Discover Burien on Friday announced the winners for this year’s ‘Best of Burien’ awards, which will be presented at an awards dinner on Friday night, Mar. 14:
Business that makes a difference in BOULEVARD PARK:
Boulevard Park Place Active Retirement Community
Best Customer Service BOULEVARD PARK:
Café Dulzura
Business that makes a difference AMBAUM BLVD:
Best Customer Service on AMBAUM BLVD
Community Automotive
Business that makes a difference in DOWNTOWN BURIEN
Best Customer Service in DOWNTOWN BURIEN
Business that makes a difference on 1st AVENUE
Les Schwab
Best Customer Service on 1st AVENUE
Mudbay
Favorite Restaurant NORTH OF 148TH
Favorite Restaurant SOUTH OF 148TH
Best NEW BUSINESSES that opened in 2024
3 Bros. Vietnamese’s
Able’s Steak House
Huckleberry Gardens
Lucite Jungle
Orange Bakery
Rebellion Jiu-jitsu
Seahurst Cabinetry
Any special “shout-outs” for a business, outstanding individual or Public Servant in Burien?
Adolfo Bailon, Burien City Manager
“Congratulations to ALL the winners!”
Awards Dinner will be Friday, Mar. 14
The “Best of Burien” awards dinner will be held Friday night, Mar. 14, 2025, from 6–10 p.m. at Rainier Golf and Country Club.
“Any special “shout-outs” for a business, outstanding individual, or public servant in Burien?
Aldolfo Bailon, Burien City Manager.”
Seriously??
Did they forget that 160 citizens and 30 police officers signed a no-confidence petition against him?
Who nominated a man so controversial that the city refuses to release his performance records—even after a paid consultant resigned because the process wasn’t taken seriously?
This is both disappointing and disgraceful.
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JJ One should probably should focus on betterering Burien instead of trying to tear it down.
Adolfo Bailon, Outstanding Individual?!? So many other truly compassionate citizens who deserve this award. Shameful.
Please stop with your personal tirade against the City Manager and realize that your petition represents a miniscule amount of residents and is old news. Although a tent camp was never outside your own business on 152nd affecting it, the overwhelming majority of Burien businesses and residents approve of and appreciate the improvements the City Manager has led and it shows in real time.
This petition represents nearly 200 Burien residents who, unlike you, have put their full names and comments on the record. Together, they make a powerful statement of the deep distrust and lack of confidence in city manager Bailon and Mayor Shilling . These are leaders in our community.
Why post such nonsense? Does hiding behind an anonymous screen name somehow make you brave?
I’ll tell you who is brave: the police officers and citizens who have put their full names down, expressing real concerns for all to see.
Your stuck and dwelling on the past, there is by simple observation of the appearance of downtown Burien a huge improvement. That petition is almost a year old and at that time the City was mired with tent encampments and a Sheriff who wouldn’t help stop the public disorder. Now because of positive actions taken by the City leadership downtown doesn’t look like a scene from some apocalyptic movie set. It’s so sad and disappointing that you have a grudge and can’t see past your own needs for vengeance how beautiful Burien has become
So what about how the other 51,000 residents of burien do they just not count because they don’t have the same grudge you have for these political leaders.
Transparency and truth should always take precedence over personal opinions in politics but it comes down to voting & truth. A list of 200 individuals sharing their personal views doesn’t carry weight if those opinions lack evidence and/or credibility. (Believe me, you don’t need to rebuttal because I know your “group’s” opinion already and it badly lacks substance and majority view.) Without supporting facts or truth, opinions are just that—opinions—without real substance.
(Ex: I just signed a petition that represents the “bad activists” of Burien which have repetitively meddled with the city of Burien governing, its backed with descriptions and receipts of their destructive actions/words throughout years… I’m sure you can imagine who was on that list. In your eyes, should this list hold weight too?)
Let’s not forget the $1 million grant for homeless shelter debacle…
Yeah, Seattle has been persistently pressuring the city of Burien under misleading pretenses, all to gain control over several political issues that would serve their own interests. Including the $1 million grant controversy, the homelessness & camping crisis, policing debacle, court lawsuit, and the minimum wage Initiative… etc
The debacle of no continued funding for those shacks pushed on Burien by KC, and no real services offered to stop the cycle of addiction and the miss management of the Homeless Industrial Complex. That is a debacle.