(Image: Fainting Goat)

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On this rainy “Spring Forward” Monday, let us turn our attention to thoughts of summer bus rides to Madison Park — and a gelato stop in Madison Valley along the way.

Fainting Goat Gelato is expanding south of the Montlake Cut with a new shop in Madison Valley. You can also find Fainting Goat in Fremont. The Wallingford shop is currently listed as “temporarily closed” as they work on a new location.

Owners Sevim and Yalcin Ataman opened the first Fainting Goat in Wallingford 15 years ago after moving to the city from Turkey. The new shop will replace the Veritables accessories and furniture store that now calls Bellevue home.

Fainting Goat joins a commercial community in Mad Valley that has been through a lot over the past year or so as the merchants say the construction to bring the RapidRide G bus route to the neighborhood has been hard on business. Conditions should improve by the end of the year as construction wraps up and the line finally opens connecting downtown to Madison Valley via First Hill and Capitol Hill.

Fainting Goat will open soon at 2804 E Madison. Learn more at faintinggoatseattle.com.

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