BASALT —Basalt retailer Michelle Lowe didn’t let the Great Recession destroy her dream.
Lowe reopened her store, Corky Woods, this summer after she ran into financial difficulties and was forced to close in April 2010. In the first go-around, Corky Woods was a 3,300-square-foot “green department store” in Willits Town Center. Now it’s an 800-square-foot “cute, funky little store” in the downtown Basalt commercial core.
“It wasn’t a planned reopening,” Lowe said Wednesday. “An opportunity came up with this space that we couldn’t refuse.”
She initially wasn’t going to revive Corky Woods. She planned to open some other type of store, but she said people kept telling her they liked the old store and wished it was back.
“It’s got a life of its own,” Lowe said with a laugh.
Corky Woods will celebrate its grand opening Thursday with Heather’s, a new restaurant that opened next door on Midland Avenue, Basalt’s main street. The event from 6 to 9 p.m. will feature a mariachi band on Heather’s deck, drink specials at the restaurant and various enticements at Corky Woods.
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