The newest business on NE 119th Street picked its building because it faces Prairie High School. The biggest project planned for the corridor, a food cart pod and beer hall next to WinCo, pitched its location partly on the school's open lunch campus. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, hundreds of shoppers will be inside the school itself, spread across its gyms, cafeteria and commons for a band fundraiser that has run since the 1980s.
Put those together and the stretch of NE 119th around Prairie High works less like a commercial strip and more like a campus with businesses lining up to face it. That idea is the most useful way to plan the next few weekends here, especially now that the project many neighbors were waiting on has a new date.
The coffee shop that picked its view
Red Leaf Organic Coffee opened its Brush Prairie location on Monday, Oct. 19, at 11504 NE 119th Street, Suite 104, in the building that used to hold Fairway Coffee. It opens at 5 a.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and closes at 7 p.m. every day.
The owners are Derek and Justina Taft of Kelso. They met working at Taco Time, became Red Leaf's first franchisees, and opened their first location in Orchards in June 2025. In The Reflector's report on the opening, Derek Taft says he stopped by the empty property in December 2025 after hearing the previous coffee shop had closed. The building, the landscaping and the drive-thru all appealed, and so did the address across from Prairie High School, which gave the couple a chance to connect with students and teachers.
The same story describes how the Tafts built their Orchards store by sponsoring things and giving back to local schools. In Brush Prairie they are following the same playbook, and they placed the shop so the school is the first thing out the front window.
The food hall drew its map around the same campus
In August we wrote that Prairie View Station was about to give this corridor a new anchor, with a fall 2026 opening. That timeline has moved. The project's own website now reads "COMING SOON in 2027." A September report from New School Beer + Cider also puts it in 2027 and quotes Trap Door Brewing owner Bryan Shull saying plans for the Brush Prairie food cart park "are moving along nicely."
Prairie View Station is planned for the corner of NE 119th Street and NE 112th Avenue, right next to WinCo Foods, and the project's 2025 announcement described it as a 42,000-square-foot food and beverage destination. Prairie High School figured in the pitch from the start. Speaking to The Reflector in November 2025, Shull said, "Prairie High School does have an open campus for lunch and I predict our cart park will be very popular with the students, staff and parents alike."
Here is what the plans show, as reported in 2025:
- Food carts: two rows totaling 14 trucks under covered awnings, with Trap Door's taproom in the center
- Cuisines with signed letters of intent: shawarma, hot dogs, sushi, Thai, Indian, American barbecue, Korean, Philly cheesesteak, hibachi and bento, and Vietnamese
- Inside the taproom: a pizza and salad kitchen with beer, wine and cocktails
- Winter seating: roll-up doors on the south side with heaters above beer hall tables, and an upper mezzanine patio with fire pits
- Hours: lunch seven days a week for every cart and for Trap Door
The land itself has a civic backstory. Killian Pacific donated the land parcel, and the release said every dollar of Prairie View Station LLC's purchase price would go to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District to support library services and educational programs across Clark County.
Trap Door's footprint changed elsewhere this fall too. The brewery closed its uptown Vancouver pub at 2315 Main St. on Sept. 30 and handed the lease to Vice Beer, while its Washougal brewery and restaurant at 1834 Main St. keep running as usual. For now, the closest Trap Door taproom to Brush Prairie is the Washougal one.
Inside the gyms on November 28
The planned food hall is a year out. The gathering that already fills this corner every year happens inside the school. The Prairie High School Bands' Yuletide Bazaar runs Saturday, Nov. 28, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 11500 NE 117th Ave. It is a major fundraiser for the band program, and every vendor has to sell handcrafted goods.
Prairie High's student newspaper, The Falcon Flyer, covered last year's bazaar in January. Its recap describes booths filling the gyms, cafeteria and commons, with roughly 200 to 300 vendors ranging from multigenerational family businesses to Prairie High alumni. Band Director Ryan Messling told the paper the event goes back to the mid-to-late 1980s, when the program was led by former director Al Aldrige.
"It's become a tradition people look forward to every year. It brings the community into our school, and gives local vendors a space to share what they create, while also supporting our students a whole lot."
The money is spent on real things. The Falcon Flyer reports that the bazaar typically raises $11,000 to $14,000 in a single weekend, averaging about $12,000, and that the money covers transportation, festival fees, instrument repairs and equipment. Band students volunteer throughout the day. Last year they handled vendor food orders, ran the salad bar and pointed visitors through the buildings.
Food is part of the draw. Last year's menu included pizza, tacos, salad bar items and snacks, and junior Aksel Bristol told the paper the baked goods and fudge booths are always popular and tend to sell out fairly quickly. That is the best reason to get there at 9 a.m. rather than after lunch.
Two Saturdays, two campuses
Brush Prairie's holiday shopping season actually opens a week earlier at the area's other high school. The Hockinson Holiday Bazaar is Saturday, Nov. 21, at Hockinson High School on NE 159th Street. It offers handmade gifts, holiday décor and local artisan work, and admission is free.
| Hockinson Holiday Bazaar | Prairie High School Bands' Yuletide Bazaar | |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, Nov. 21, 2026 | Saturday, Nov. 28, 2026 |
| Hours | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
| Location | Hockinson High School, 16819 NE 159th St., Brush Prairie | Prairie High School, 11500 NE 117th Ave. |
| What's for sale | Handmade gifts, holiday décor, local artisan creations | Handcrafted goods only, plus food booths |
| Good to know | Free admission; questions to [email protected] | Band program's biggest fundraiser; fudge and baked goods sell out early |
Both bazaars keep the same hours, and the Saturday after Thanksgiving lands two days after the holiday, so the pair works as a two-weekend plan. Hockinson's event comes before Thanksgiving and suits early gift lists. Prairie's catches the long weekend, when out-of-town family may be around.
A Saturday built around NE 119th
The corridor around Prairie High already supports a full morning on Nov. 28 without waiting for 2027:
- 6 a.m. Red Leaf Organic Coffee opens its weekend hours at 11504 NE 119th Street, across from the school.
- 9 a.m. Bazaar doors open at Prairie High, 11500 NE 117th Ave. Do the food booths first, before the fudge runs out.
- Lunch on campus. Last year the band sold pizza, tacos and salad bar items inside the bazaar.
- On the way out, the corner at NE 119th Street and NE 112th Avenue next to WinCo is where Prairie View Station is planned to rise.
The Saturday before, Nov. 21, uses the same 9 a.m. start at Hockinson High. One cup of coffee and two school gyms cover most of a Brush Prairie holiday shopping list.
Once Prairie View Station opens in 2027, the corner across from Prairie High will have lunch seven days a week. Until then, the campus itself is where the corridor gathers, and the Yuletide Bazaar on Nov. 28 is the day to see it. If you're wondering what the changes along NE 119th Street mean for your own property, NW Luxury Group follows this corridor closely, and our instant home valuation gives you a fast starting point before we talk through the details together.
