3 Bel Air Main Street Businesses Close Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

BEL AIR, MD — In the past month, three businesses in downtown Bel Air have announced plans to close. They are shuttering amid a state of emergency that shut nonessential businesses for months to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Two clothing retailers and a florist on North Main Street in downtown Bel Air will be vacant by the end of June.

Tiny Toes, a children's boutique that has been in existence for 14 years, announced this week that it is going out of business.

After a two-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the boutique reopened May 16 with new policies in place, such as private shopping hours by appointment.

The shop will close its doors for the final time at the end of June, Tiny Toes announced June 8.

"We hope we will get the chance to see as many of you as possible in the shop," Tiny Toes owner Karen Jacobs posted on Facebook. Discounts are available online and in store through the farewell sale.

Tiny Toes is at 4 North Main Street in Bel Air.

Across the street, Urban Pearl closed temporarily March 18 along with most Main Street shops.

Its owner announced May 15 the boutique would not reopen.

"This is NOT a COVID casualty," owner Lyn Boone wrote in her farewell letter to the community.

Wanting more time for herself and her family, Boone said she had lined up a buyer in December and the lease was "days from signing" when all was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. Boone said it turned out it "probably wasn't the time for someone new to retail to start."

She founded Urban Pearl in 2013 as mobile boutique and moved the products from her fashion truck into the storefront on Main Street in February 2016.

Some of the popular lines from the boho chic shop will be sold at B. Fabulous and the Pink Silhouette, including Joy Susan bags and jewelry, THML, POL, Ces Femme, Bae Vely and Hashtag, Easel, Umgee and Kori, Olivacious, some handmade jewelry, Inspire Designs and Refunked Junk "for our popular spoon necklaces," Boone told Patch.

Urban Pearl is closed at 13 North Main Street in Bel Air.

Customers can still shop on the Urban Pearl website.

Mrs. Flowers filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 29.

Mrs. Flowers is at 105 North Main Street.

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