Dandelion Market moving to new location
Charity Helton, left, is the owner of the Dandelion Market, which opened in September on Market Street in down- town Clinton, but which has now moved to 407 Cullom St., next to the Apple Blossom Cafe. Standing with her is her aunt, Regina Steiner, who helps her in the store. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
The Dandelion Market’s new location will be 407 Cullom St., next to the Apple Blossom Café, said the shop’s owner, Charity Helton.
She said the building at 363 Market St. where she opened less than four months ago has been sold.
“We’re moving, but because they’re making us, not because we want to,” Helton said Monday. “We will open in the new location on Saturday, Jan. 1.”
She said the new owners of the 363 Market St. building operate a business called The DW Designs in Knoxville, and are opening a second location in Clinton.
“I’m trying not to be negative about it,” Helton said. “We will have customer parking spaces at the new location, which will be good for moving furniture in and out.”
The Dandelion Market sells “repurposed and painted furniture and other home décor items, and we also do custom [furniture] painting,” said Helton, who previously worked for 11 years in a dental office.
Helton, who lives in Maynardville, formerly had a space for her business at Clinch River Mercantile on Eagle Bend Road just over the railroad tracks from Market Street in Historic Downtown Clinton.
The Dandelion Market is the business she has long dreamed of owning, she said just before the store opened in September.
Earlier, Helton said she had felt welcomed by the other businesspeople on Market Street.
She has been in the antique and used furniture and home décor business for more than four years, she said, including about two years at Clinch River Mercantile.
Hours will be the same as before: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, Helton said.