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MAKING MICHIGAN: Carriage Town Antique Center and Hoffman’s Deco Deli
The downtown Flint home of the Carriage Town Antique Center and Hoffman's Deli.
If you're ever heading north on I-75 or US 23 and have some spare time, be sure to check out the Carriage Town Antique Center and adjacent Hoffman's Deco Deli in downtown Flint, Michigan. It's a great place to have a tasty sandwich and spend as much time as you want perusing the thousands of antiques spread over two levels in a restored art deco style building, built for Sears Roebuck tire and service center, in 1928, in Fint's historic Carriage Town neighborhood. Nick Hoffman, an estate appraiser and ardent Flint supporter, opened the Antique Center and Deli, 503 E. Garland St. in Flint, in 2008 as part of a dream he envisioned more than 20 years ago. Hoffman had long wanted to have a consignment antique business and attached deli that he could operate with his two sons, Heath and Mark Hoffman. "I call it a warm and fuzzy building," Nick Hoffman said. "You come here and shop and have a good lunch and have a good feeling so you'll want to come back and go through it all over again."
Some of the fine merchandise of the Carriage Town Antique Center.
All Hoffman's services, including appraisals, garden design, EBay sales, as well as many of the items for sale, can be found on his business Web site, www.randolphhouse1872.com. The name of his estate liquidation business is also the name of his own historic home - Randolph House, located in Carriage Town two blocks from the antique center and deli. Hoffman's antique store and deli is a key part of the steady revitalization of Flint's Carriage Town neighborhood. That revitalization has recently received national attention, including an in-depth reports in the New York Times and Chicago Sun Times. View the NY Times photo slide show here.
How the former Sears tire service center looked before restoration.
For details on this Flint deli and antique business go to www.carriagetownantiquecenter.com and www.hoffmansdecodeli.com.
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