Elephant’s Toe Antiques Expands to Near West End

Elephant Toe Antiques of Carytown, recently opened a second showroom on Grove Avenue, near Libbie. The store is doing very well.

The Grove Avenue store is bigger, with about 9,000 square feet of space compared with about 7,000 for the shop at 3100 W. Cary St.

Both stores display a mix of furniture — from French to Art Deco — jewelry, crystal, carpets, lighting and artwork.

Strickland said he was worried at first that sales at the Grove Avenue shop might be lackluster. But that hasn’t been the case since the shop opened in early November.

“Grove Avenue is doing 10 times the business that Carytown is,” he said.

“I looked at the Arcade building and felt like the marketplace there was very strong,” he said. “The merchants and the restaurant owners all have a terrific network there. And the people who come there, come there to buy and not just . . . to linger.”

Carytown is still holding its own, he said. He’s keeping the Carytown store open for the time being. The lease expires later this year.

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