(Jan. 28, 2021) The brick storefront close to the highest of Most important Road, the place the Albert G. Brock Insurance coverage Firm, and these days RogersGray Insurance coverage, offered property, auto, boat and life insurance coverage for practically 60 years, is empty, aside from a “We’ve Moved” signal taped to the entrance door.
“So many issues have modified round them however they’ve at all times been a part of the core of downtown,” mentioned Allan Bell, who has owned Nantucket Pharmacy two doorways down since 1977. “You may not want an insurance coverage firm downtown, however it’s unhappy to see them go.” Final week, RogersGray, which bought the Nantucket-based 130-year-old Brock Insurance coverage Firm in 2016, moved the workplace out of city, to 137A Orange St., previously the house of Compass Rose Actual Property.
“Parking was the most important cause,” RogersGray chief advertising and marketing officer Lynn Mason-Small mentioned. “Our workers actually was having bother having parking there.They have been consistently having to maneuver, and for our purchasers they have been having a tough time coming out and in.”
However for Bell, the transfer is a component of a bigger pattern of companies transferring away from Most important Road.
“There’s the notion that there’s no parking, that mid-island is the place to be,” mentioned Bell, who additionally owns Island Pharmacy on Nice Road.“That’s the place most individuals do enterprise. Individuals go to the boat or go to dinner downtown, however don’t actually hang around downtown anymore. It’s the notion that there isn’t any regular, everyday-life enterprise downtown to get the fundamentals, and that’s a notion that’s not true.”
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