Park Central Square staple to close tomorrow

A jewelry shop doing business on Park Central Square for nearly 30 years and downtown for over four decades is closing tomorrow.

Marilyn Scott, who owns Marilyn's Fine Jewelry with her husband Jeff, said the couple is retiring.

“My husband will be 79 next month, and I’m not far off,” Scott said, noting her husband has worked in the jewelry business for 60 years and she has for 43. “I think I’ll probably get an antique booth and volunteer.

“I’ll miss meeting people.”

Through the final hours of 10 a.m.-2 p.m. tomorrow, the 108 Park Central jewelry store will continue its 60 percent off closeout sale.

Scott said the business moved into the square when the couple purchased the building in 1989. Marilyn's opened in 1973 and previously operated in the the McDaniel and Holland buildings.

The owners plan to close next Wednesday on the sale of the building, which sits next door to Civil Kitchen & Tap.

Mark Kerivan of Murney Associates, Realtors listed the three-floor, 6,050-square-foot building for $295,000. He said the buyer plans to open an upscale restaurant on the first floor and a single-family loft residence on the top two floors. Both Kerivan and Scott declined to disclose the buyer’s name.