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Next week, a new business will open on Washington Avenue and its not a restaurant or bar.Instead, Chrysanthemum: Rare Teas & Flowers, will offer flower arrangements, rare teas and tea ceremony classes.

The shop is the collaboration of floral designer Sarah Lineberger and tea master Ken Lo, who met by chance when Lineberger tagged along with a friend to an interview on ethnic foods with Lo.The pair, along with Lo’s wife Angel a real estate broker hit it off immediately and a collaboration was born.It was a random incident, totally by destiny,” said Lineberger.

A 24-year-old California native, Lineberger moved to New York six years ago and has worked at Manhattan flower shops since. She will be trading her Fort Greene digs for the cozy apartment behind the shop, located at 669 Washington Ave. between  Marks and Prospect Lo and his wife bought the building in 1989 living in it for 12 years. For a time Angel ran her real estate business from the ground floor storefront, and for a while it was also rented to a doctors office.And 669's newest iteration is sure to be embraced by Washington Avenue-are residents, many of whom have been calling for a diversity of businesses after watching a spate of bars and restaurants open on the strip over the past two years

Mike Sclafani, who owns the flower and skate shop Park Delicatessen on Classon Avenue and serves on the board of the Washington Avenue Prospect Heights Association, said he welcomes the new addition.As for how it will affect Park Delicatessen, we’re just going to keep what we are doing. But as a baord member of WAPHA, I’m so excited to see another vacancy filled on Washington Avenue he said.I think it will be great on the neighborhood.