Creekside Coffee Bar & Bookstore, Skaneateles, N.Y., which has had new owners for the past seven months, closed abruptly on January 1, Syracuse.com reported. A sign on Creekside's door says, "Business is closed. Sorry for the inconvenience." Owners Adam and Ksenia Tontarski, who bought the store from founder Erika Davis last year, did not comment on the closing, and Adam Tontarski told the Skaneateles Journal not to talk with anyone about the closing. Former employees were surprised by the closing, and one said the owners had called operating the store "too much of a financial burden."
The Tontarskis bought the store last May and closed its temporarily. In July, the store reopened with increased book inventory, new equipment and a wider selection of food and drink. At the time, the Tontarskis called owning a bookstore "a dream come true."
When Davis founded Creekside in December 2004, it consisted of separate Creekside Books and Creekside Coffee operations that were next to each other. In 2012, they merged in the coffee space.