Category Archives: Closings

Dwyer’s Hallmark to close in Andover, but sister stores in Wichita, Derby and Emporia will remain open

Nov. 11, 20095:37 p.m.

WICHITA — The Dwyer’s Hallmark store at 420 S. Andover Road is closing at the end of February, but the Dwyer’s Hallmark stores in Wichita (at Brittany Center at 21st and Woodlawn), Derby and Emporia will remain open.

The Andover store is closing because the Dillons that used to be near it moved farther away.

“That’s really killed our business there,” says Scott Dwyer, who manages the businesses for his parents, Sue and Harold.

The store has been there for 10 years. Dwyer says his family isn’t moving to be closer to the new Dillons because rent would be higher.

The family already has closed its Nifty Fifty store at 321 S. Andover Road. That store used to sell the Hallmark shop’s close-out items along with other close-out merchandise.

“It just didn’t work out, either,” Scott Dwyer says of the store, which opened in 2006. “We started out OK, and the sales just really fell off.”

Business at the other stores is all right.

“I’m not going to say it’s great right now,” Dwyer says. “It’s been a pretty tough year. We’re just hoping for a good Christmas.”

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Myoptix Fashion Eyewear to close

Nov. 6, 200912:58 p.m.

WICHITA — Word first started circulating weeks ago that Myoptix Fashion Eyewear may close, and now it’s happening.

“I’d been sick for a long time, and of course they tore up the road,” says owner Jon Herrscher of his space at the northwest corner of Douglas and Oliver.

The economy, though, probably has been the biggest factor.

“I just have to close up,” Herrscher says. “There’s no traffic anymore.”

He’ll stay open for another week or two to sell his inventory, which Herrscher says he’s reduced to his cost or below.

He’s owned the shop for more than seven of its approximately 10 years in business.

Part of the problem is his space is too large, Herrscher says. So he may reopen somewhere else at some point.

If “we just found a little smaller place, more quaint would be better.”

There’s also a chance Herrscher could just sell wholesale or partner with an eye doctor.

“I’m not quite sure what my plans are,” he says. But there’s “no use keeping it open.”

Myoptix isn’t the only business closing on that corner.

As Have You Heard? previously reported, Caffe Posto’s last day in business is Sunday, and Barrier’s will close early in the new year.

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Garden Reflections at Clifton Square to close

Nov. 4, 20093:34 p.m.

WICHITA — Garden Reflections at Clifton Square is the latest Wichita business to be a victim of the economy.

A disappointed Terri Windsor plans to close her shop by the end of the year.

She opened at Clifton Square, which is at 3700 E. Douglas, in March 2007.

“Things went really, really well the first year,” Windsor says. “We exceeded our initial projections. We were stunned that it was doing so well for a little shop.”

She created a garden atmosphere with mulch and jute rugs on the floor and branches hanging from the ceiling. There were even garden sounds on her stereo.

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East-side Italian Garden to close; west restaurant will remain open

June 18, 200911:08 a.m.

WICHITA — Ali Issa has decided to close the east-side Italian Garden at Kellogg and Webb, which has been open since 2000.

“The volume is down,” Issa says. “There’s no traffic. We don’t know where to get the people. You can’t go home and bring them from their homes.”

The Italian Garden at 21st and Tyler will remain open, and the east restaurant’s catering will move there. There’s been an Italian Garden on the west side since 1989, when it opened at Douglas and West.

Issa says the closure has nothing to do with his Heat Cigar and Hookah Lounge at 338 N. Rock, which he says is doing “phenomenal.”

There’s a chance Issa will bring back an east-side Italian Garden one day when the economy is better and he finds a new location.

Issa wants longtime east-side customers to know Italian Garden will be open through dinner Sunday and then close for good.

“I just want to give them a chance to say goodbye.”

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