Sydney business at risk of closing finds new home in downtown core

Thanks to customers, Ed's Books and More of Sydney, N.S., has found a new home in the downtown core.

The new space is at 331Charlotte Street, just blocks away from theold location, which wassold to the province to be used for aNova Scotia Community College campus.

"First of all, it will be that much easier for my current customers to be able to locate me," owner EdGillissaid. "I mean, you can just look up the street and there I am."

Gillis's customers helped find his new location.

He had been looking around without much success. But then his customers turned to social media last week and the effort paid off.

Gillis described it as "a bit of a Christmas miracle."

"I'm going to have to give credit to my friends for finding this place for me," he said.

"Some people dug a little bit deeper into the situation than I did.Some people did some detective work and found out there was a basement below that I can also use for retail and there's a room above that I can also use for retail."

Gillisplans to move his store in late February and beopen in his new spaceby March 2020.

He said it means a lot to stay on Charlotte Street. "This is an unexpected surprise to be in the core of downtown Sydney," he said.

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