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Millies Drapery & Decorating hopes to reopen at old location, nearly a year after fire
Family business has operated since 1968
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Keith Edwards sews pieces of fabric Wednesday afternoon for a client's ottoman at Millie’s Drapery & Decorating. After fire destroyed the longtime Gainesville business in August 2016, the team moved to a temporary location across from Publix on Thompson Bridge Road. In August the team will move back to their original Cleveland Highway site in a new building.
Working in tight spaces for the past year, Millie’s Drapery & Decorating hopes to be back at its old location off Cleveland Highway by mid-July. The business has operated at 1223 Thompson Bridge Road since Aug. 9, when an overnight accidental fire — thought to be electrical in nature — consumed the old building. “We’re coming back, and we’ll be better in the end,” office manager Chris Kinsey said during a tour of the new building Wednesday.