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Corrales Businesses Hope You'll Shop Here For Yule |
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Written by Jeff Radford
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 |
Although most Corrales businesses seem to be hanging on during the
“worst recession since the Great Depression,” some have closed
recently, some have opened and others have simply relocated.
Coming soon is a new coffee shop and wine bar in Village Plaza, next to
the fire station. Oasis Coffee and Tea will serve fresh baked goods as
well.
Just south of the fire station, the newly-opened Corrales
Upscale-Resale furniture consignment shop seems to be half-closed, even
though the sign for the business that formerly occupied that space,
KaiZen Studio, was never taken down.
Penelope’s Gardens has relocated from the commercial complex at the
corner of Corrales Road and East Ella Drive to Norm Schreifels’ Village
Plaza as well. The space it had occupied, behind Copper Tree Gallery,
will be used by the property’s new owners for an expansion of the home
decor offerings at the entrance to the Hannah & Nate’s sandwich
shop.
The chiropractic office that had operated intermittently in the front
portion of the building that houses Stevie’s Happy Bikes is now closed;
in its place is GRS Music Studios. Owner Jimmy Smith will teach guitar
and other string instruments as well as voice, percussion and keyboard
and performance skills.
He has a recording studio there as well, and is set up to repair
stringed instruments including violins. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday and Saturdays 10-4.
The owners of Frame-n-Art in Las Tiendas de Corrales Center contemplate
moving their business into Corrales within six months to a year if
plans pan out. They would re-open in the structures behind Village
Mercantile that were headquarters for Ken Yarbrough’s Los Patios
landscape and tree nursery business for many years.
And another business located in a commercial strip south of Corrales
will be relocating here. The Tooter Cosper Insurance Agency has plans
to move from Alameda Shopping Center to the Territorial Plaza office
building at the corner of Corrales Road and Coronado Road early next
year.
The sleep clinic that was to have opened in the two-story “White House”
on Corrales Road between Priestly and Coroval Roads will apparently not
do so after more than a year of delays. The owners of what has also
been known as “the old Sears Roebuck mail-order home” or more recently,
the Victorian House Sleep Center, Bud and Debi Wilcox, will instead use
the property for their own businesses; a construction services firm and
art instruction. |
