What Business Should Go into Former Now Furnishings Building?

Now Furnishings was at 11 East Main Street for about five years, but since the store closed its Avon location, keeping its second location open in South Windsor, the space has remained vacant for a year-and-a-half.

The building is located next to da Capo, right along Route 44.

"We've had quite a few people looking at it," Ann August, property manager for Old Avon Village. "It could be a retail, could be a dress shop, could be a coffee shop, could be a restaurant."

The space used to be two separate houses, built in the 1830s, with lawn in between. Blumen Laden opened in one of the houses in 1972, the year Old Avon Village was established. When the store, which features floral art and decor, moved to its current Collinsville location in 2004, Old Avon Village converted the the building and the house nextdoor into one building.

Businesses that cycled through before the furniture store include Jerry Rosenfeld's dentist office, natural food store Herbs and Way, make-your-own chocolate store Molds and More, Piano Player Emporium and Avon Village Cheese.

What business or businesses do you think should go into the post-and-beam building?

Anyone interested in leasing the space, contact the Old Avon Village business office at 860-677-6755.