There’s a new emporium in town!
After 25 years in the middle of Madison Street, Forest Park Emporium antique store closed its doors for a few days at the end of April and, this month, started selling antiques two blocks east at 7215 Madison St.
“I didn’t want to leave the market. I love Madison,” Marlene Tap, owner of Forest Park Emporium for the last 15 years, told the Review the week after the store’s May 9 grand reopening. She said she’d been looking for about 5 years for a new location, since the old “building needed a lot of work, the kind where we’d need to vacate.” When the store’s lease was up, she moved down the street.
The new location is slightly larger than the last, though walls are still lined with booths where individual dealers sell antique jewelry, glassware, furniture and clothing. At 7215 Madison St., there are separate rooms full of old items, while the last store was one open space. The booths are also larger at the new location, since a few less dealers moved with Forest Park Emporium…