Monthly trolley efforts aside, the Vincennes Street corridor now finds itself somewhat of a "tweener." The revitalizing core is one direction, and the outlying retail areas another. The natural configuration of Vincennes is as portal to Portland, but logic ceased when the railroad closed the bridge 35 years ago. Reopening the bridge for walkers and bikers would re-energize the Vincennes corridor overnight. The Main Street redesign ... perhaps.
I believe the Artisan Market concept is a good one; unfortunately, it was going to take some time to become established as the sort of destination shop that people would swing out of their way to find. Best of luck to the Garrisons as they reconfigure.
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Artisan Market will discontinue retail sales at 318 Vincennes Street to concentrate on our web site and distribution of locally made food items. More information about those efforts will be shared in upcoming weeks. We will end our store hours by the end of next week.
We appreciate the support from the many friends, family, customers and store artisans we have enjoyed over the last year.
Its been a fun and rewarding year to assist the many local, independent artists and food crafters represented in our store. We remain committed to supporting the 'buy local' movement. However, after assessing our current situation we think its best to focus on future opportunities.
Thanks to all of you!
We have already communicated with most of our store artisans and will be finalizing payments for final consignment sales and returning existing consignment merchandise.
We will finalize those communications with store artisans. However, future communications from artisans may be directed to the following:
tgarrison(at)myartisanmarket(dot)com
502-641-4891
Again, thanks to everyone for your support. Its been a privilege serving our many fans, customers and artisans.
Todd Garrison
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