Tell me about Doylestown,Newtown,Yardely, Upper Makefield.

[zionrug]

Hey OT,

I'm thinking about opening a high-end home furnishings retail store and the area in the thread title is at the top of my list.What can you tell me about the area: Demographics, better areas, types of people living there?Any favorites out of the group? Any walking towns?Any other pertinent info?

Any help would be appreciated,


Adam

[DropTopChevy]

< waits for grammar nazi to get on you about spelling Yardley wrong.
I have lived in Yardley all my life and its a nice place, but as far as finding a place with the space for a furniture store may be a little hard.

[Kerplunk105]

Rent in any of those towns is going to kill you...

[zionrug]

Originally Posted by DropTopChevy

< waits for grammar nazi to get on you about spelling Yardley wrong.
I have lived in Yardley all my life and its a nice place, but as far as finding a place with the space for a furniture store may be a little hard.

Meh,

I had a long 2 days and I've had 3 big Baccardi and Cokes today.Anyhoo, Are people up there more relaxed and friendlier than the stiffs on the Main Line? I'm trying to do a comparison between the two areas.

[Kerplunk105]

Really depends on what clientele you are looking to target...some of the people are friendly and others like any area are snobby...

[ITSTOCK]

Originally Posted by zionrug

Hey OT,

I'm thinking about opening a high-end home furnishings retail store and the area in the thread title is at the top of my list.What can you tell me about the area: Demographics, better areas, types of people living there?Any favorites out of the group? Any walking towns?Any other pertinent info?

Any help would be appreciated,


Adam

I do/have done a LOT of work for "All About Home", who started in Newtown about a decade (or more) ago and moved to main street Doylestown 2 years ago. Rent/utilities alone were a little over $14,000/month, or more (I think that was their lowest bill). They were a high-end furnishing retail store, as well as antiques. They now changed names and do great interior decorating, no longer in the retail business.

There are already 2 well established stores in Doylestown, and they are also struggling from what I was told. Demographically, it's a good place to open a high end store that also has antiques. However, a lot of clientele/customers have very unique taste, and want items right away, so unless you can keep a HUGE inventory, they will go to the next store. It's going to be a REALLY tough place to start a high-end home furnishing store, just a heads up. But with a good plan and great marketing, anything is possible.

Good luck if you decide to take the venture. As I'm sure you already know, mark-up on high end furniture retail (and even more so on antiques) is just ridiculous.

[poolmike]

There are plenty of snoooots in this area. The average person in this area wants everything yesterday and for less than the competition.

The area is filled with people from all incomes. There are people that barely pay the bills and people that $h!t money.

As far as my service business goes, I'll never go back to Main Line area. There is a whole lot more aggravation in that area.

[zionrug]

Thanks for the replies guys. The store would be 70% oriental rugs and 30% furniture.I've been doing this for other people in the Main Line area for 9 years and I'm ready to strike out on my own.I've checked out similar stores in the area and as that one tune goes,"Ain't no competition to the $%^# I bring." The biggest fear I have is signing a long-term lease. I'll be scouting out locations in the next few weeks.

After checking the spotted section I deduced that there is a higher concentration of exotic cars in up in Bucks than on the Main Line.

[den9]

i just moved to doylestown in april, half my neighbors are rednecks, revving their drag car at 8 am on sunday, another guy does wheelies on his quad on the street with his mullet flying in the air, one guy has burnouts all down the street, and then theres an old guy with a car in his front yard on jack stands with 3 wheels

the other half are rich and white collar, not really snooty though

and theres a couple middle class people

then some farmers who i never really see


you would probaly have better luck on the main line, im pretty sure theres more exotic cars there, they even have a ferrari dealer. im 99 percent sure its the wealthiest place in pennsylvania