Another one bites the dust – EQ bolts Carytown

Guest post by Harry Kollatz. Bang the muffled drum…another Carytown store is vamoosed. This may be old news and it’s been mentioned where I’ve not seen it..but EQ is POOF gone out of Carycourt. There’s a sign in the door saying that “due to business conditions” that the store is shut, and if you need your […]

June 16, 2008; 9:23 AM • by West of the Boulevard News

Guest post by Harry Kollatz.

Bang the muffled drum…another Carytown store is vamoosed. This may be old news and it’s been mentioned where I’ve not seen it..but EQ is POOF gone out of Carycourt. There’s a sign in the door saying that “due to business conditions” that the store is shut, and if you need your EQ fix you’ll need to go to MacArthur Mall in Norfolk. There’s already paper in the window. but I couldn’t determine what if anything is moving in.

Friday a week ago, the 103 degree Friday, i was lugging victuals back from Kroger when I man I didn’t really know stopped and said, “Harry, it’s too damn hot, get in the car.” Very funny. He knew the mug from seeing in print on occasion. Anyway, so he’s a rental agent for residential spaces. He told me he and his wife walked the street a few days earlier and counted 21 empty spaces. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, least I think so, since probably about five of those are in transition between the old and new. But even Carey Burke is trying to rent out a portion of her store, and the restaurant that was supposed to arrive in Accacia’s old place hasn’t–despite hopeful scaffolding, and Mezzanine hasn’t yet gotten up and running either.

But nobody dares call this “recession.”