After 17 years in business on the South Fork, but only five months in East Hampton, the Outdoors store will close up shop at the end of next month.
Barry Adelman, the owner of the store that moved to East Hampton Village after losing its lease in Amagansett last year, said he is not doing enough business in its new location to justify the rent — $10,000 per month.
A clearance sale has begun, and will continue through Sept. 29.
"I thought the location would be better," Adelman said of the storefront at 30 Park Place, off Reutershan's parking lot.
The two-story space was renovated after he signed a lease in November 2012, but he said the landlord didn't make good on a promise for an elevator to the second floor. "In the new location, in our lease, it does say we're supposed to get a working elevator. We didn't get one."
Adelman said the staircase is "a trek for anybody, but physically impossible for a number of people."
He said the landlord is letting him out of the lease.
Adelman's lease at 171 Main St. in Amagansett ran out in April 2012, though the store remained there through the summer after Adelman refused to leave and fought an eviction proceeding. He started a petition, signed by hundreds, to try to convince the landlords to renew his lease.
"I could look at it and be really depressed or look at it as the beginning of something new," Adelman said of his decision to close the store.
The Chester, N.Y. location will remain open.
Memberships that were sold in East Hampton will be honored online through the Chester store, Adelman said. While everything in the store is 30 percent off during the clearance sale, members enjoy 50 percent off. In fact, he said that some are even just now purchasing the $30 membership for the extra discount.
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