Warehouse 55, a two-story showroom filled with vintage and antique items, is leaving downtown Aurora in October and moving into a new space in Batavia.

The new location at 160 First St. in downtown Batavia will allow the store to operate on a single floor, something manager Mindy Schloss said they’ve needed for years, according to a press release announcing the store’s move.

The showroom currently operates out of a two-story building at 55 S. Lake St. in downtown Aurora, which has “a lot of stairs,” according to owner Mark Allen Shouldeen.

“You have to use stairs to go to the second floor, you have to use stairs to come into the building,” Shouldeen told The Beacon-News on Friday, noting that Warehouse 55 gets a lot of elderly customers and customers with mobility issues. “It limits t

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