Hatch Furniture Leaving Downtown Sioux City
Hatch Furniture announced recently, that it will 
close the doors on its Sioux City store, leaving another downtown building with empty windows.
Many businesses have come and gone from that part of town, but one official says the city’s been successful luring business back.
Hatch furniture has been a popular shopping destination in downtown Sioux City for nearly 24 years.
Right now it’s closed until Friday while prices are marked down for a closeout sale.
Then in the next four to eight weeks, it will be gone.
The big question, obviously, is why?
The answer is different than what you might think.
“I got really choked up when I told them,” owner Ron Hatch said. “It was a tough, tough decision for me to make.”
It’s decision that Hatch is calling equal parts business and equal parts personal.
“I just decided that life’s a little too short,” Hatch said. “I want to spend a little more time with my grandkids. And we still feel we can serve Sioux City just as well out of Yankton.”
That’s where Hatch lives and where he has another furniture store. So he’s consolidating the two stores into one newly remodeled building in Yankton.
“I feel with one operation I can be much more efficient, much more streamlined,” Hatch said.
That’s partly because in the past few years, the Yankton store has simply done better business. Though Hatch emphasizes, that’s only part of the decision.
Roger Caudron of Downtown Partners, the group that assists downtown businesses, agrees that downtown is still a good place to set up shop. He cites HOM Furniture’s move into the old Younkers building as an example.
“For us to be able to fill an 80,000 square foot downtown space in 14 months is phenomenally positive,” Caudron said. “Downtown Des Moines’ Younkers has been closed for four years, it’s still empty.”
“Some people wonder if that was part of my decision, it wasn’t.,” Hatch said. “I think the fact that we would have been next to HOM would have helped both of us. And we’ve got a lot of good friends and customers in Sioux City, and I hope they follow us to Yankton.”
Despite the move, Hatch Furniture does plan to still have warehouse delivery in Sioux City.
Caudron says the furniture store is in a highly marketable building, and he doesn’t expect it to take long to be filled.
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