Strictly Business: Back-A-Round Records opens downtown
Music lovers -- especially the young vinyl-buying crowd and the older folks who have never quite embraced the world of digital music -- may want to check out Back-A-Round Records, which opened in the downtown district Friday morning. The store celebrated its grand opening in conjunction with Fourth Friday activities.
"We were excited about the store," said 48-year-old
The Creeches are from
"This is who I am. This is what I am," said Adkins, who is 37.
The owner estimated that, for opening day, his store was carrying probably 10,000 items from his personal collection, including vinyl, cassettes, compact discs, turntables, tape players. "And it's not all in here yet," he said. "I'm putting it all out there."
Initially, Adkins had hoped to have this new enterprise up and running along
The music store side of the business shares space with a recording studio and tattoo parlor.
Hours are
Because of the grand opening weekend, Back-A-Round Records will be open Sunday.
New tenant at former
A few readers have inquired about the flurry of activity at the former
The 12,500-square-foot building has been vacant since the book store closed in
A couple of on-site workers with Southeastern Design and Construction said Friday that
"It's a bigger building, and we'll be able to have more in-stock inventory," said
Ivey called the upcoming move -- anticipated for late March -- "a very good move" for
"Right now we're so far off the road, by the time people see us and realize we're here, they're flying down the road," he said. "Unless they already know we're here, it's just a lot harder for people to walk in. This (
More than three months ago, Strictly Business reported that
Word on the street is that pastry lovers in north
"We'll start construction soon," owner
He expects to open "the beginning of June, maybe. Something like that."
The new
On
Nelson also owns a
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