With the sale of the former laundromat building closed, Vashon is one step closer to having a laundromat in business again.

New owner and longtime islander Doug Sudduth said that he’d been trying to buy the space for the last two years and that he and his mother, Rebecca Parks, intend to open a new laundromat there.

Sudduth recently began work to remodel the building, but permitting issues have put the work on hold for now.

Sudduth explained that he is in the process of getting the work permitted, though Sheryl Lux, a King County code enforcement manager, said that while an application for a permit had been submitted, it was not yet complete.

Once the appropriate permits are in place, however, Sudduth said that the soon-to-be Suds Laundromat should only be a few weeks away from opening.

Suds will offer all new, large capacity, high efficiency washers and dryers. Sudduth and Parks have kept one machine from the old laundromat specifically for oversized, hard to wash items such as horse blankets.

And while the new business will not offer dry cleaning, the pair hopes to use the remaining space in the building to open a frozen yogurt shop.

“We’re looking into it, and hopefully we’ll be able to get that done,” Sudduth said. “It’ll be called Kenny’s Brain Freeze, after my brother.”

Sudduth’s brother Kenny died tragically in a recent single-car accident on the island.

Vashon has been without a public laundry facility for two years, since Joy’s Village Cleaners closed in June of 2013.