Community Rallies To Keep Bruce Variety On Arlington Road
Owners of the Bethesda fixture say they'll need to move because of a rent increase.
The Bethesda community is rallying to keep Bruce Variety operating in its longtime location in the Bradley Boulevard Shopping Center, but store representatives say they will need to move because of a rent increase. The store is coming to the end of a 10-year lease, and owners say the new rent will make it unaffordable for the community fixture to stay on. “We have made many adjustments to make sure we stay profitable, and when we’re faced with our lease that’s just going to spiral out of reasonable affordability, we have to make a business decision to move,” said Linda Ridenour, wife of owner Richard Dimock. For 60 years, the store has been a one-stop-shop for Bethesda residents in need of items ranging from clothing and kitchenware to …
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lena
11:22 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
It is lamentable the amount of businesses like Bruce's Variety that are disappearing from our communities. Ben Franklin's in Adams Morgan disappeared years ago, along with flower shop, and hardware store, the beginning of the end for that neighborhood, now just filled with bars and restaurants (sound familiar Bethesda?) and not really a place where you can walk around and run errands or do … more ›