Dandelion Market moves to new location back on Market Street
Dandelion Market owner Charity Helton waits on a customer Saturday at the store’s new location at 362 Market St. in downtown Clinton, as her son Max, 7, looks on. The store opened at the new address on March 23. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Owner Charity Helton said she opened her newest store location on March 23 at 362 Market St., in the former location of Hoot’s Corner. The store moved from a building next to the Apple Blossom Café, at 407 Cullom St.
“We are glad to be back on Market Street, and have a much-larger space,” Helton said Saturday morning. “We have about two-and-a-half times as much room as we had at our former location.
“It’s also nice to be back on Market Street, where people can find us more easily,” she said. “It’s amazing how much difference about 400 feet makes (in distance from the former location).”
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.
The new Market Street location has plenty of space in the back for the store’s custom furniture painting, Helton said.
The store is open Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Helton said.
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.
The Dandelion Market is the business she has long dreamed of owning, she said just before the store opened in September 2020.
Earlier, Helton said she had felt welcomed by the other businesspeople on Market Street. She had been in the antique and used-furniture and home-décor business for more than four years, she said, including about two years with her booth at Clinch River Mercantile. The Market Street location was the first time she’d had her own storefront.