SYLVANIA, Ohio — The owner of Sylvania book store Finch & Fern announced on Monday she would be closing the business’s storefront, citing ongoing downtown city construction and increasing operational costs.
In a post to Facebook, Katie Gilliland, the store’s owner, said the storefront’s last day in operation will be July 25. But the business isn’t completely shutting down: Gilliland said Finch & Fern would still operate as an online bookshop, and as a vendor at local events and pop-ups.
Gilliland said she deliberated for more than a year if she could keep the business open. A construction project in downtown Sylvania is one of the reasons she said she isn’t able to keep the business running. WTOL 11 spoke to Gilliland in July 2025, when she said she was collaborating with other businesses to mitigate the impacts of construction in front of her store…