Loss of yet another small business on Main Avenue a blow to vitality – News – The Inquirer and Mirror

(Jan. 28, 2021) The brick storefront around the top rated of Key Street, where by the Albert G. Brock Coverage Corporation, and currently RogersGray Insurance plan, sold home, auto, boat and existence insurance for almost 60 a long time, is vacant, apart from for a “We’ve Moved” indicator taped to the entrance doorway.

“So lots of items have improved about them but they’ve normally been portion of the core of downtown,” stated Allan Bell, who has owned Nantucket Pharmacy two doors down because 1977. “You may not require an insurance policy business downtown, but it’s unhappy to see them go.” Last week, RogersGray, which obtained the Nantucket-dependent 130-calendar year-old Brock Insurance Firm in 2016, moved the business office out of town, to 137A Orange St., formerly the dwelling of Compass Rose Actual Estate.

“Parking was the key cause,” RogersGray main internet marketing officer Lynn Mason-Smaller mentioned. “Our staff seriously was having issues possessing parking there.They had been regularly acquiring to shift, and for our shoppers they were having a difficult time coming in and out.”

But for Bell, the move is aspect of a larger craze of firms moving away from Main Road.

“There’s the perception that there’s no parking, that mid-island is the put to be,” reported Bell, who also owns Island Pharmacy on Pleasant Road.“That’s where by most persons do organization. Men and women go to the boat or go to dinner downtown, but never definitely cling out downtown any longer. It is the perception that there is no standard, day-to-day-daily life enterprise downtown to get the fundamental principles, and that is a perception that is not correct.”

 

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