Longtime downtown retailer Home Porch Gifts is closing.
Saturday likely will be the last day for the business in the Carpenter Building at 217 S. Phillips Ave.
Co-owner Lori Linder estimates that the business has been downtown for about 25 years. She and her husband, Bryan, owned the store for eight years before selling it in 2020. They recently became the owners again as the store began its going-out-of-business sale.
“She just couldn’t make ends meet,” Linder said of the former owner…