At the end of last year, a beloved character in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood was forced to move out due to redevelopment. It wasn’t a person but a longtime business.
Another business is turning off its lights in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood and seeking refuge further east due to redevelopment. Book Buyers, a family-run eclectic used bookstore, must vacate its current location by the end of January.
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Visitors to VisArt s microcinema will have a hostess who welcomes them and waits on them throughout the show.
Back in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Gina Stewart thought she might have one of the few virus-proof businesses.
VisArt rents movies. Actual, physical movies – DVDs, VHS tapes – that customers can take home and watch. When everyone is forced to stay home, that should mean a thriving business, right?
“Of course, we felt that way, too,” said Stewart, VisArt’s executive director. “We were like, ‘OK, people need us. People s mental health needs us.’ They need to be able to come in and get 10 movies and go home and watch them because they can t find what they want on Netflix, or they don t have Netflix, they don t have cable. Everybody s financially pressed.”