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General News: Two Stores Closing on Main Street
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| Sound Trax is closing this Saturday. |
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| Cornwall Country Home will stay open another few weeks. |
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| The business district benefits when business owners fix up their storefronts, like this one that is home to State Farm Insurance. |
January 15, 2009
Two more businesses are closing on Main Street in Cornwall in the days and weeks ahead. Sound Trax, a music store, is shutting its doors this Saturday after 14 years in the business district, and Cornwall Country Home, which has been in the same location for more than 20 years, is closing, too.
Rich Florio, owner of Sound Trax, blamed the closing on the decline of foot traffic on Main Street. He said that the decline in local sales began when the high school moved from Main Street in 2003 and never recovered. He also said that the decline in Main Street’s appearance did not help attract people downtown.
“I survived the internet,” Florio said, “I sold more used CDs, lowered my prices. But after the traffic died, I couldn’t do it any more. “ Florio also plans to close a Sound Trax store in Monroe but he says he still operates a healthy business at his stores in Middletown and Vernon, N.J.
Cornwall Country Home owner Caitlin Hogan doesn’t blame the economy for her decision to close the shop she has owned for four-and-a-half years. In fact, she reports that sales this holiday season were as good as they were last year. Hogan’s expecting her second child and has been offered a job she can do at home while spending more time with her family.
Hogan says she has tried to sell the store for year with a broker without generating a single offer. Now she has put a For Sale sign in the window and is offering discounts on all merchandise. She plans to close the shop on March 1st.
The departure of the home furnishing and decorations store will leave a hole on Main Street. Dream Dance, CC’s Closet, and a woman’s clothing store have all closed in the past six months. But even as some businesses leave, others still try to make a go of it on Main Street.
Bruce Bryan moved his State Farm Insurance Agency into a storefront he renovated last year and a sign in the window at store where CC’s Closet used to be announces that a new hair salon, Hair Matters, will be opening soon.
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The mall mentality has killed main street. Look at that ridiculous stack of empty stores by the supermarket and tell me who is going to fill that up? People are unwilling to walk from one end of the plaza to the other, they *drive* from the Key Food to the dunkin donuts for petes sake! I would love to see an artisan's market, with a variety of vendors and craftspeople, set up shop inside the old CVS building.
posted by Kate Benson on 01/21/09 at 10:50 PM
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