ABC Carpet & Home Soon Will Close Its Store in Brooklyn’s DUMBO

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First, the good news: ABC Carpet & Home, the luxury home furnishings chain, will have a sale at its DUMBO and Riverhead locations. Now, fans of the store should brace themselves for the bad news: Those two stores are closing.


In a statement, ABC Carpet said leases on the two stores are expiring soon, and the company has “elected not to renew.” A company spokesman, Andy Morris of the public relations agency Morris + King, declined to specify why the company is closing two of its six locations.


The owner of the DUMBO building, Two Trees Management, doesn’t know who will replace ABC Carpet, its leasing representative, Caroline Thebaud, said.


Neither ABC nor Two Trees named an exact date for the store’s closing, but the company will vacate the building “in the next few months,” Ms. Thebaud said.


“It’s unfortunate that they’re closing,” a Halstead broker and lifelong Brooklyn resident, William Ross, said. “I think that’s a great store for Brooklyn, and I’m not so sure ABC spent enough time and effort in promoting their location there. I think that probably led to their demise.”


The company promoted its DUMBO opening heavily, Mr. Ross said, but then didn’t follow up with fliers or advertisements in Brooklyn newspapers.


The store’s closing is especially surprising since West Elm, another home furnishings store that has a branch nearby, is thriving, a Prudential Douglas Elliman broker, Faith Hope Consolo, said.


“I’m actually totally surprised because I would assume that it would be an incredible area for them,” Ms. Consolo said. “That area has so much growth potential.”


DUMBO has grown rapidly in the three years since ABC opened, Mr. Ross said. “It’s completely developed into a real residential neighborhood now. When they first opened, there was one large residential building in the entire neighborhood. Now there are six or seven, and there are three of four being built right now.”


Ms. Consolo said the store’s closing doesn’t reflect on the neighborhood.


“It’s a very vital neighborhood. We have two offices in that neighborhood, and I have tremendous retail demand in that area,” she said.


Demand for ABC’s products will probably heat up in the next few weeks, as the hottest shopping season of the year begins. At the outlet store in Riverhead, carpet prices will be cut by as much as 50%.


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