C-Mart move will help York Road's antique row
Readers of The Sun, or maybe just Baltimoreans generally, are highly, highly interested in the store formerly known as C-Mart. Any C-Mart story we do gets huge readership. This morning's story on the former C-Mart moving to Cockeysville is the No. 2 most-read story on the paper's Web page, outranking every Ravens story and column and even the weather stories.
So the store is popular, and its move to North York Road should bring consumers to that neighborhood and help antique row and other nearby stores. Antique row could use an anchor store to bring in traffic. Perhaps C-Mart (What's it called now? Does it matter?) can serve as that draw.
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I think everyone is sick of reading about the Ravens anyway :) As for C-mart, I am interested in seeing where it is going. I live up that way and am guessing it is going where the old Bill Bentley antique store went. I will look closer when I drive home tonight. It is refreshing to read about a business moving IN there instead of just watching place after place vanish. The last time I went to C-mart in Joppatowne (when it was called C-Mart) it was full of junk that I would not take for free, but I will definitely be taking a peek in this new location since it is close to home.
Posted by: Gina | January 18, 2011 11:31 AM
Where, exactly are we talkin' here? I can't imagine a space on Antiques Row that large unless it's part of what was formerly Maryland Specialty Wire, on Cockeysville Road and now houses the Bounce & Play (or whatever it's called) Party Place in part of it's complex.
Posted by: Eve | January 18, 2011 12:03 PM
It says something about Baltimore that we are so excited about seeing a new business move into an area that we don't even care if it's C-Mart...
Posted by: John J. Walters | January 18, 2011 12:55 PM
Mr Waters - I don't know why you think C-mart moving says anything about Baltimore at all. I am looking forward to seeing its latest incarnation. I will decide at a later time whether I will continue to visit there or not.
I have a novel idea for you - if you don't like C-mart, guess what? You do not have to shop there. Don't stress yourself trying to read something deeper into this :-)
Posted by: Gina | January 18, 2011 4:21 PM