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But by February, that year tradition will come to an end. Second-generation owner Mark Olinger and his wife, Kim, are closing the store, hopefully by the end of January, with plans to retire to Colorado before the snow thaws. Since , he and Kim have been looking forward to retirement and the lucky alignment of numbers — the year-old store opened in — seemed the right time to make it official. He saw that the paint store at Main St.
Mark started mixing paints in the store in when he was just 17 years old. His brother Barry left the business 20 years ago to move away.
Their father, Dick, continued to walk to the store every morning until the day he died in He was Then the recession hit. Benjamin Moore expanded its store list to include two other nearby merchants. Eventually, Olinger started a custom-framing business in the back room to bolster his dwindling sales. Longtime customer Mike Thayer, a retired truck driver and now handyman, was at the shop on Wednesday picking out several gallons of paint and deck stain.
His family has been shopping at the store since they moved to Vista in Kim Olinger said they first considered closing the store in , when a real estate investor offered to buy the building because he foresaw the future revitalization of downtown. Unfolding a well-worn map of Colorado on the store counter, Kim said she has spent years studying maps, weather patterns, housing and demographics that convinced them to retire to the Woodland Park area of Colorado.
She and Mark love to hunt and fish, Mark has a sister near there, and the housing and land prices are affordable. The couple plan to sell their inventory as well as all the shelving and fixtures, hopefully by the end of January.
The building, which is owned by the Olinger family trust, will be put up for lease before they leave. When asked if he hopes the store could possibly carry on as another paint store, Mark shrugged. Then I never see them again. La Jolla Playhouse unveils first four shows of season. Dining and Drinking. Camino Riviera and The Waverly: Two new restaurants, two new cuisines, one chef. North County. Wild Wonders raising cheetah cub to become an ambassador for his vulnerable species.
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