Adam Skalman

Local Businesses and COVID-19: The Shade Store

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For today’s Q&A with a local business navigating COVID-19, we hear from Adam Skalman, vice president of sales at The Shade Store. The business at Elm and Main Streets is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 

Here’s our exchange. New Canaanite: The Shade Store’s opening at Main and Elm turned out to coincide with the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency. What has this been like for you?  

Adam Skalman: Our experience has been like so many across the world—a renewed sense of community, social partnership and unified purpose. We are so lucky to be a part of the New Canaan neighborhood, and so many areas like it across the country, where local businesses and residents work together to create a healthy and safe environment during this stressful time. Many people are spending a lot more time at home and appear to be getting some long-planned home improvement projects done.

Business

‘The Shade Store’ Planned for Elm and Main

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The New Canaan Building Department last week received an application to  fit out a prominent commercial space downtown for an established custom shades, blinds and drapery shop. The Shade Store is planned for 1 Elm St., according to a building permit application filed Dec. 3. The corner space at Main Street has been known to locals as the site of Crew Cuts children’s clothing shop. The estimated $90,000 interior fit-out involves two rooms at what promotional materials describe as an approximately 1,000-square-foot space, the application said.