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Cafe Svago May Close Next Week
The owner of the downtown coffee shop is still trying to remain open.
Cafe Svago may be closing as soon as next week if tenant and landlord cannot work out an agreement.
"We're trying to stay open. We're trying to work something out with the landlord," cafe owner Trish Arata said.
Business has dropped 50 percent from where it was a year ago, a decrease Arata sources to the economic recession and to a decline in shopping local. As a result, she is behind on her rent.
"The rents here are way too high," she said.
Cafe Svago's landlord is Urstadt Biddle Properties, which owns the buildings stretching from Cappiello Brothers on Main Street down around the Bailey Avenue corner to Bailey's Backyard, as well as the building that houses Melillo Farms.
The landlord did not immediately return a call for comment, but this story will be updated if someone responds.
The downtown coffee shop has been open for about four years as Cafe Svago and was a coffee shop under different ownership for the five years before that.
