Spartacus Leathers recently closed its longtime store on West Burnside, leaving a short note behind: “Location Permanently Closed Thank You for Decades of Fun. Visit us at Spartacusleathers.com.”
Downtown denizens may (or may not) miss the leather-clad mannequins that posed in the windows for decades wielding crops and adorned in studs and wigs.
Calls to Steve, who owns the building, says there’s been no interest yet in the 3,000-square-foot space, which his grandmother leased to Spartacus Leathers 39 years ago.
Can rule out retirement. A long term business would have made a bigger deal about closing. Not just up and close with a note on the door. So the usual suspects remain: decline in foot traffic. Online business competition. Increasing theft. Area Safety concerns. Nobody has really said. It can’t be a rent increase because the landlord doesn’t have it leased and there are no prospective tenants either.
Why do you think this closure happened?