Amy Stretmater doesn’t waste time. She went to a craft show the day she arrived after moving to Colorado Springs from Chicago in September. A few weeks later she had a lease signed and now she has a pop-up holiday shop at 224 N. Tejon St. Her Koru & Company features items from her own [...]
Ghosts, witches and zombies are creeping into vacant retail spaces to take full advantage of the Halloween selling season. Halloween is the nation’s second-biggest shopping holiday next to Christmas and is expected to rake in more than $6.8 billion in revenue this year, according to the National Retail Federation. Six temporary Halloween shops popped up [...]
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