Family-run general store has been a Store Street landmark where generations of Victorians could find everything from camping and fishing equipment to nautical parts and pieces
Capital Iron, the Store Street landmark that evolved from a ship-scrapping business in the 1930s to a retailer selling everything from cookware and clothing to hot tubs, tools and antiques, is shutting its doors permanently on Dec. 17.
Black said although supply chains have since improved, a cold and wet start to spring and summer delayed sales of many outdoor items. Reliance announced plans to redevelop 6.7 acres in that area of downtown in what would be one of the biggest developments in the city, including a new home for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, currently earmarked for the Capital Iron parking lot.
Reliance president Jon Stovell said the Capital Iron building, the brick building next door and a small building on Store Street that houses a pottery store would be saved.Black said there was an agreement to keep Capital Iron in its building, but details on how much the business would occupy were not worked out.
The company started buying military surplus items after the Second World War and machinery parts from dismantled cranes — even aircraft landing mats. The Greene family expanded with goods of all sorts acquired in government auctions, distress sales and fire and flood insurance claims. Few of the original stones have survived after more than a century, but several are still visible in the store. The longitudinal beams that span 120 feet with only one joint are also still in place, as are the cast iron columns in the basement and the iron shutters visible partway up the main staircase to the second floor.
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