After 20 years of operating the Drums, Etc. store on New Holland Avenue, Rick Hamilton was planning on a change of scenery and a change in business.
He was going to downsize and relocate his store, shift most of the sales to online and become a partner in a new apartment project elsewhere in the city. He even put the New Holland Avenue property up for sale.
Then Hamilton got another idea â go forward with moving and streamlining Drums, Etc., but take his property off the market and develop rental housing there by himself instead.
âI thought my property had a much better location (than the site of the partnering opportunity) and I already owned it, which would make it easier to get financing,â Hamilton said Thursday.