If you need a fashion-forward collar for your cat, or a tiara for your dog, you'd better get to Georgetown Belle Pet Boutique soon—the store, which only joined the Georgetown business community in late 2009, is due to shut its doors in the next few weeks.
Washington City Paper's Lydia DePillis reports that the store, which owner Todd Walderman took over from another business owner in December, (he then moved it from O Street to P Street and renamed it), has seen three solid months of poor sales and now has a flashy "store closing sale" sign hanging over its front door. From WCP:
"Sales dropped off after the winter months, and Walderman can no longer afford his $5,000 per month rent, along with restocking inventory.
“'Things over the last three months got very slow, and never picked up,' he says. Hopes for quick economic recovery have faded, and people are still careful with their money—100 customers will come through in a day, and buy nothing."
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