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Operation of the Antiques Center

The Hyde Park Antiques Center is operated as a vendor and consignor based venue for the display, marketing and sales of collectibles and antiques. This "antique mall" facility consists of over 9000 sq. feet of gross rentable area providing the space, opportunity, business support and customer base that is necessary to foster a comfortable, friendly and classic environment to do the business of selling antiques and collectibles. The new owners of this Center have focused their efforts on the business of operating an antique mall so that the vendors and consignors within can concentrate their efforts on the business of selling!

Vendors are antique business tenants or serious antique hobbyists in the true sense... renting rooms, floor space or cases for the merchandising of their wares on a square footage or area basis. Vendors pay an established rental amount each month and they setup, design, merchandise and stock their spaces to satisfy their individual focus in this antique vending world.

Consignors are random folks with items of vintage value that desire an outlet for the sale of their treasures. Our outlet provides a legitimate setting for liquidating and converting those unused treasures into cash. Surrounded by goods and vendors at our ample antique facility, consignment items yield unexpected rewards to the consignors who pay a commission-based fee to the Center in lieu of rent. Granny's old coffee grinder or the 4 poster bed could not be in better company for our consignors

Our vendors are, for the most part, also our staff ... and our eyes and ears on the business. They staff the front desk where a new point-of-sale computer program tracks vendor sales and remuneration. They also provide helpful advice and direction around our extensive collections, but they know that we are assisted in the task of safeguarding the valuables we sell by an expansive recorded security camera and monitored alarm systems.

We "greet in" and "check out" the multitude of customers and dealers who stop in the Center, and we have an ample and targeted advertising program to get the word out among the antique trading world that the Hyde Park Antique Center is where they should stop in the Hudson Valley.