Kimmel’s closing Galion storefront

Kim­mel Clean­ers is clos­ing its Galion store­front at 602 Hard­ing Way West, but the com­pany expects to keep doing busi­ness in the city.

Mark Kim­mel, third-generation owner of the fam­ily busi­ness, said Thurs­day that he and his wife Kathy are coor­di­nat­ing with another local busi­ness to estab­lish a drop-off point where cus­tomers can take their clothes to be cleaned. The details on the drop-off point will be announced at a later date.

The com­pany will still run its twice-a-week route through town to serve its indus­trial and restau­rant cus­tomers. At this point, exist­ing indi­vid­ual cus­tomers have been added to the route in prepa­ra­tion for the storefront’s last day on Feb. 29.

The com­pany won’t be lay­ing off any­one in the closing—one woman is retir­ing and the other will be help­ing out at the Bucyrus Kimmel’s location.

Kim­mel Clean­ers has been a Galion land­mark since the early 1980s when the Kim­mel Cor­po­ra­tion pur­chased the Tiger Clean­ers busi­ness at the cor­ner of Hard­ing Way and Jef­fer­son Street.

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