Going into the 2,034-sq.-ft. former Washateria space at the back of the little shopping strip across Greeley St. from the Blue Bird Circle Shop on West Alabama: a soon-to-be beer-and-wine-licensed coffee shop called Siphon Coffee, set to open late this year or early next. The space is shown on the far left of the photo above. Owners Michael Caplan and Edward Treistman write on the coffee house’s Facebook page that there’ll be food enough for breakfast and lunch too, once the place opens, after they get help from former Brasserie 19 chef Amanda McGraw with the menu and training.

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Strip center owner Gulf Stream Properties has plans to redo the whole center, which the company plans to rename the “Shops on Greeley.” Just in front of Siphon Coffee will be a new barber shop called The Argyle League. “Please No Restaurants,” the company pleas in a flyer advertising the remaining 3,000-sq.-ft. spot facing West Alabama.

Photos: Swamplot inbox. Plan and rendering: Gulf Stream Properties