An organization of folks who own businesses located in Newtonville – with a particular focus on small/home based businesses (professionals, entrepreneurs, consultants, writers, artists, otherwise self-employed) are having a meetup this Friday morning. Details here.
New Newtonville business group looking for members
by Greg Reibman | Apr 9, 2012 | Newton | 5 comments
Speaking of Newtonville (and sorry if this is old news), anybody know the story behind the closing of All About Shoe? I saw a note on the door yesterday saying that they were sorry to their customers but had to close up after three years in business. Seemed really sudden. Nothing on the shop’s website:
http://www.allaboutshoe.com
Hi Jim,
My understanding is that the store was pretty negatively impacted by all of the utility work on Walnut Street last year, dramatically cutting the customer flow into the store. They had tried to come back and had seen reasonable good trends since then, but I guess they just ran out of time.
Dan – one of the owners – had been one of the more passionate small business voices when Beautiful Newtonville was just getting underway a few months back.
Really too bad. Kind of leave Newtonville a little bit soulless, yes?
Don’t be such a heel, Greg
Relax Chris, you’re just a little too laced up.