NORTHAMPTON In an effort to fill up some of the vacant storefronts that dot the downtown landscape, the city and state have partnered to offer tax credits to new businesses that open in certain spaces that are currently sitting empty.The city’s.
As Ali Osborn sees it, life can be more precarious than we’re generally willing to acknowledge. The power can go out, natural disasters can strike, and even smaller events can upset the equilibrium we often take for granted, giving the lie to phrases.
Published: 4/9/2021 2:56:31 PM
NORTHAMPTON Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old Serio’s Market storefront on State Street in Northampton.
The spot was ideal, complete with parking. “We were working on floor plans and everything,” he said. “Then COVID hit.”
Surrounded by so much economic uncertainty, Muller scrapped those plans entirely. Instead of staying in downtown Northampton, where he’s run Guild Art Supply for 37 years, he made the tough decision last year to move the store and framing shop to his press space in Easthampton.