Hartford Tobacco Shop Closing

(Hartford Courant) ... The Tobacco Shop at 55 Asylum St. and O. F. Stengelin Cutlery on Old Bank Lane, will close in March. The stores' owners say they're quitting business because they can't afford a stiff rent increase by the building's owner, Grunberg Management LLC.
The Tobacco Shop, a smoky Hartford oasis for pipe and cigar smokers that was founded in 1920, will close March 31, owner Jim DeLisle said. Continued

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