Business

‘A Family-Friendly, Community-Oriented Business’: Carpet Trends Is Coming to Main Street

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A family-owned, multi-generational provider of residential and commercial flooring and related services is coming to downtown New Canaan. Carpet Trends will open a satellite showroom at 97 Main St. this spring, according to owner Tyler Rogers, whose grandfather launched the business in 1956 in Rye, N.Y.

“We do some work in New Canaan and the surrounding area now, and we thought given the similarities between Rye and New Canaan, the location that [Realtor] Betsy [DiMatteo] helped me find, there was a lot of things that lined up, and it’s easy for us to service this area from our existing warehouse with our existing labor with our existing stock. We’re known for the stock that we carry, which is discounted high-end to low-end products that we buy in bulk. So when designers are shopping and they’re looking at the high-end products or they’re looking for whatever products, they come to our stock wall and see if they can get a good discount for a high-quality product because we have it in stock.

Badass Bagels

‘Badass Bagels’ Is Coming to Burtis Avenue

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A favorite of the popular New Canaan Farmers Market is setting up a permanent location downtown. Badass Bagels—a sourdough bagel maker whose extras include Hot Honey Pistachio Cream Cheese, Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookies, Sourdough Pizza Dough and Honey Nut Squash Soup—is opening at 5 Burtis Ave., according to the company’s social media and a sign in the window. The bagels are “entirely different from a standard yeast bagel,” the result of a four-day dough-making process, according to the Badass Bagels website. “They are made with our very own sourdough starter,” the website says. “The starter was created during the spring of 2020 during the many weeks of being home and baking and cooking anything and everything.

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‘No. 299’ Moving Into Bigger Space on Main Street

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A popular retailer in downtown New Canaan will soon expand its offerings in larger commercial space. The store, No. 299—whose tagline is “curated goods for home and her”—is moving from 100 to 114 Main St. on or perhaps before Feb. 1, according to owner Jackie Fucigna.

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New Canaan Holiday Shopping: The Spice & Tea Exchange

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For today’s installment in our local holiday shopping series, we talk to Pam Robinson, co-owner with husband John of The Spice & Tea Exchange. The shop at 118 Main St. is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. Here’s a transcription of our conversation. ***

New Canaanite: This is your first shopping season here on Main.

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New Canaan Holiday Shopping: Stewart’s Wine & Spirits [Q&A]

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For today’s installment in our local holiday shopping series, we spoke to Larry Klem, manager at Stewart’s Wine & Spirits, 215 Elm St. Here’s a transcription of our conversation. ***

New Canaanite: Tell me a little bit about how the shopping season’s gone here at the wine shop

Larry Klem: It’s going pretty well. We had a really good November. It started out a little slow, but things by mid-November were ramping up and we had a great holiday week.