When two iconic Austin businesses share an address, someday one was going to lose out
“Moving sale. All books 75% off.”“Thank you for continuing to support small businesses. 25% off everything.”
So far, Playland management is keeping their long-term plans close to their chest – not least because they have not been completely finalized. They’ll have something to share this summer, they say, but not quite yet. Yet the one certainty is that the space will not become a second rink. Instead, the idea is to turn the whole unified facility into a family entertainment center, one with no space for a vintage mall.
Their specialty is fine art, so while some units look like someone just emptied an estate sale into boxes and poured them onto racks, the Krumreys’ space feels curated. Even so, the packed spaces barely scratch the surface of their huge inventory. According to Michael, with what they have in storage and in their own homes, “our four booths here, if I emptied them today, I could fill them 10 times.
However, retail space isn’t the only property that’s changing. “Homesteads are smaller, everyone is downsizing,” Zimmerman says. That’s leading to a change in the collectibles market: After all, who’s going to pay a few hundred dollars for a Victorian china set if they don’t have a china cabinet? “No one has the room,” Zimmerman adds, mournfully, “and if they do have the room they already have all the stuff.
Of the many malls that antiques dealer Christopher Krumrey has operated out of, he says, “This has been by far my favorite place. It’s like a big family here.” So come mid-June, the Playland management will take possession of the vacant side of the building, and begin whatever their plan is. The hot rumor around the mall is that they’re planning to fill the void left by Dart Bowl and Highland Lanes, and build their own bowling alley. But that’s just speculation, and like everyone else the vendors are waiting to hear the big reveal in the summer.But whatever fills the space, there’s no replacement for the mall.
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