From coffee to clothing: New store to open in Butler
After a few years of decorating a brick-walled shop on Butler’s Main Street with art and imagery with the look of an antiques store, the owners of Vintage Coffeehouse teamed up with some friends to do the same thing two doors down, only for a clothing store instead of a café.
Two Twenty-nine Clothing & Home is a joint business venture between Peter and Angela Kupas, who own Vintage Coffeehouse, and Linda Patten and Mark Keene, who all partnered to sell new clothing at the shop’s namesake address.
Angela Kupas said the four partners had a running start at opening the business. They started planning for the shop five weeks ago and the space at 229 S. Main St. becoming available at the end of October.
She said Friday, Nov. 22, that she talked with Patten after church one Sunday, and the two decided to start the business.
“It’s all new,” Kupas said. “It’s the vintage vibe of our coffeehouse, but it’s all new clothing, new home decor. Just when you’re looking for gifts or just browsing, it’s just fun stuff.”
Kupas said the store will open for the first time Wednesday, Nov. 27, and will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays; and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays.
The store will feature “stylish women’s clothing, unique home goods, and fun, handpicked pieces,” Patten said, adding part of the drive behind opening the shop was to increase the number of shops where people could spend time in downtown Butler, after seeing the streets of nearby Zelienople and Saxonburg bustling on nights during the holidays.
“We have tons of women saying, ‘This is a great girls day out now,’” Patten said. “It creates more of a destination, a make a day of it.”
Kupas said the partners wanted to have the shop open for Small Business Saturday on Nov. 30 — the busiest day of the year at Vintage Coffeehouse. While it was a sprint to get the clothing ordered, the shop repainted and the business documents ready, Kupas and Patten said the store should be ready for its first round of customers Wednesday.
The opening of the store already has excited some customers of Vintage Coffeehouse, Kupas said. She added that through the end of the year, shoppers at Two Twenty-nine can get a discount at Vintage Coffeehouse if they bring their receipt from the clothing store.
“It’s a support to what’s already happening downtown,” Kupas said. “If you can add one more thing, it’s great. Just to make downtown even more enticing.”
