Owner looks to lighten load by selling business’ building — but not store
Even though Joe Caparulo wants to sell the building that houses Cappy’s, the Elmira business he bought from his father in 1985, it doesn’t mean the 65-year-old two-generation family enterprise is going away.
Caparulo, 59, says he’d be more than happy to become a tenant at 205 W. Clinton St. — the two-story brick building where he sells cards, gifts, music, lottery tickets, hand-made jewelry, candles and other items.
However, like many of us, he’s looking to lighten his load, and selling the building is the initial phase in taking some of the responsibility off his shoulders.
With candor, Caparulo told me about his late September heart surgery and how it caused him to put the plans he had for Cappy’s on a faster track.
And in that same discussion, he recalled how the business has evolved right along with the neighborhood surrounding it.
While potential buyers of the building show interest, Cappy’s is being taken in a slightly different direction.
