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This is the first in an occasional series entitled: “Site Unseen.”
When you walk out the front door of The Ink Store, you won’t be stepping into a busy parking lot, and you won’t be able to hear the rush of cars and trucks passing by at high speeds on a nearby roadway.
In fact, when a recent visitor looked around in an effort to size up the neighborhood, the most interesting sights were a bunch of soccer fields to the left and a very tall, wireless communications tower almost straight ahead.
Location, location, location. Didn’t anyone ever tell store owner Selina Derungs about location? “I like it here,” she said.
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She must. The Ink Store, which sells a wide variety of laser toners, ink-jet cartridges and ribbon cartridges, has occupied its space at 106 Powder Mill Road — an industrial-looking building that most local residents would identify as the home of Canton Village Construction — for about three years.
Before coming to Canton, Derungs rented space for four years at Plaza 44 in Avon, a slick-looking retail location with a traffic light right in front on busy Route 44. Back then, thousands of vehicles passed within sight if her business every day; today, most of the traffic nearby is headed for Canton’s transfer station.
“I needed a more reasonable rent,” said Derungs, a resident of Simsbury.
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