It has been a long journey to get to this point. Days of wondering how we could make this happen, can we afford to move, what if we did not find a suitable place. Our thoughts changed back and forth from; can we buy something to costs of renting, what should we do?
Then, out of the blue, I made a wrong turn one day and low and behold arrived at the parking lot of the Greer Mini Mall by the Greer homestead at 1245 Hanwell Rd. As I spoke to one of the tenants about her business moving from Queen St, the owner of U wash dogs, told me how this move has helped her business.
The location is easy to find. Nothing like being across the street from Ritchies Carpet Warehouse, with its big red lettering. You can see it as you look for Tim Horton's new location on the top of the Hanwell. Yes, it is true, we will be able to walk to Tim's for coffee. Oh boy, I love those ice caps! We will all have to watch our diets.
The unit we are taking over was once the Case's Renovations site. It needed some work, walls repaired and they did this for us. Case's supplied three men and rebuilt the walls so we can get them painted. Thank you guys for a great help and Rob for donating this to us. This is dirty work so it was great to get that kind of help.
Monday and Tuesday we will be getting it professionally cleaned as walls of 14 ft and 18 ft are too much to ask of our wonderful volunteers to clean. After that, we will begin painting and do our arranging of shelving and preparing the workshop for your donations. There is much to be done before we open on June 1st.
Our plan is to stay open until near the end of May at the King St location and take only 2-3 days to do the final touches in our new location. Signs will be going up soon and you will see that we will have converted a flat faced mini mall unit to a lovely boutique entrance...and wait until you see what we have planned for the inside!!!!
Here are a few before pictures to enjoy. You can also follow the developments on my facebook page.
I ask for your help, encouragement and as always a good prayer here and there can work miracles. We are working with our 21st client in three years since we began. We know that our program is beginning to make an impact in some of the client's lives and we thank you, our community, for sharing your blessings on so many of us.
Have a great day. Come see us soon! Our new location will be 1245 Hanwell Rd, across from Ritchies.
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