I got this from JABCO’s Facebook page…
With great regret, Jabco will be losing our space at the Broadway Market. We are looking for a new home and would love your input on where you would like to see us in Western NY. Please send us your suggestions.
Please stay tuned to Facebook and our website JabcoGeneralstore.com for updates.
As always, thank you for your continued support.
Edwin/Jabco General Store
JABCO has been at the Market for nearly twenty years and sell all kinds of interesting Polish stuff along with Polish Pottery and other assorted goodies…I will get some more info as to why they are moving later today.
Check out this post for updates.
UPDATE
Here is more info on the move it comes via this
Jabco General Store has announced that sadly they are leaving the Broadway Market. They are having a dispute with the Manager over the location of their store.
We must act today to SAVE JABCO, the heart of the Broadway Market!
I have sent an email to the Broadway Market manager and the folks that run JABCO to find out what the deal is.
I would hate to see them leave.
UPDATE – 8:28 am
Received from Mirella and Ed Jablonski who own JABCO…
Since we have not received a formal eviction, we hope that we can resolve this issue and put it past us so that we can move forward and remain at our present location. Until we receive that eviction letter and go through the proper legal process, we aren’t going anywhere. All we want to do is run our business and not be constantly harassed by the current Manager. We wanted to bring this to everyone’s attention including Mayor Brown and City Hall. We appreciate everyone’s support, emails and phone calls.
Mirella and Edwin
As the Buffalo News reported recently that the new manager does not listen to people, only himself,. I hope I am correct in my saying this because it was in the Buffalo News this past week within an article talking about the gardens. Eddie D. made comments about the manager. We need them to stay or we will have a large hole in the middle of the market and then there goes the market. I go every Saturday morning to the market and believe me, you could sometimes throw a bowling ball and hit nothing. Even the waitresses at Peirsons tell us all the time that business is very bad when we stop to eat our lunch. Gardens onnthe roof may be good but you need more businesses in the market, not on top of it. Even the Sunday farmers market is not doing good. Maybe it should be on Saturdays.
I would hate to see them leave. But there are two sides to every story.
I wonder what the manager and city have to say about this?
Why does there always seem to problems with the Broadway Market? I shop there on regular basis, but the quality of offerings and the number of vendors has really slipped over the last couple of years.
The Broadway Market is the anchor of the neighborhood. Easter time and the Christmas shopping season it really functions as a regional draw. Its sustainability and future is at stake. The City of Buffalo currently is putting a large investment in capital improvements, but that alone will not address the issue of a number of vendors leaving over the past three years. The new manager has managed to bring a few vendors, notably Chuckies, East West Cafe and Niagara Popcorn. With all the excitement about the market and good press, you see new faces. But you can’t get pass the sense of emptiness. If you are in the back near the butchers, you get a different impression. For the center of the market to be one big hole can spell disaster. So please make phone calls to the City, 311, etc, it is not about who is right and wrong, it is about getting a resolution of this matter that works!
As Bev correctly states, it isn’t about right and wrong, it’s about finding a resolution. And, if the implications about the current manager are true, he needs to realize that he isn’t running a market on Elmwood Avenue. He needs to do everything in his power, including kidnap, to attract and maintain tenants.
I have worked for this woman Mirella before and she is a terrible person. Very hard to get along with. She is always pointing the finger when she is always the problem. She treats her employees terribly and I have received many complaints from customers that were mistreated. She is a nasty woman and I would bet my life that the poor manager of Broadway market did nothing wrong.