ASPEN – — The Maryland-based parent company of Wolf Camera has yet to return calls and emails to the property manager of its East Hopkins Avenue store or The Aspen Times to explain the reason behind last week’s abrupt closure.
Wolf Camera — the only camera seller and photo-finishing shop in town — received its Aspen business license in October 2001, according to the city’s Finance Department. A city worker said neither the local manager nor the parent company, Beltsville, Md.-based Ritz Camera and Image LLC, notified the department of the closure, which occurred on April 28, according to a window sign found on the door Tuesday.
In February 2009, Ritz Camera and Image’s predecessor, Ritz Camera Centers Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing between $100 million and $500 million in both assets and liabilities.
The 300-store company blamed the national recession and consumers’ switch to digital photography for the filing. The company has continued to operate over the past few years and even opened a few new stores.
The window sign at 445 E. Hopkins Ave. tells customers that any items, such as film to be processed, left with the local store can be picked up at the company’s store in Greenwood Village, south of Denver.
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