Party Mania, a family-owned small business at 4910 Cordell Avenue in Bethesda, is now planning to close its doors in early 2024. The store's owner, Blake Grandon, made clear the party supplies shop was in trouble earlier this year, despite high ratings from customers on Yelp, Google and Facebook. A helium shortage in 2022, and the impact of the pandemic on gatherings and celebrations in 2020 and 2021, put the business into a financial hole going into this year.
Grandon has sought investors - and is open to a last-minute lifeline from one or more - and crowdfunding over the past year. The former have not yet materialized, and the latter only raised $925 of its $10,000 goal. As such, the store is now preparing to close in early 2024, should a miracle not materialize in the coming weeks. A closing sale is now underway, offering 50%-off storewide, with the exception of balloons and that infernal helium.
While I would not want to see another skyscraper there, that site and adjacent is certainly ripe for development. Some better retail or food on that block would be good. Most there now is crap.
ReplyDelete@5:19 - Stick to your delivery "Berders".
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ReplyDeleteI supported Party Mania for many years and even during the pandemic but after having a terrible experience last year, I stopped going. I can’t say I am surprised to hear this news.
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