West-side Usave Cleaners reopens

Usave Cleaners owner Steven Speakman has reopened his west-side store following the state’s seizure of his three businesses.

“I’ve got it all put back together,” he says.

The east-side and downtown Usave stores won’t reopen, though.

“I was going to get even further behind in my taxes if I kept the other two open,” Speakman says. “It just made more sense to stick with what I know.”

He says he was trying to add convenience and extra customers with the other two stores, but he couldn’t add customers fast enough to justify those two sites.

“We got a lot of new customers,” Speakman says.

He says he thinks some of them — particularly customers with a lot of items to clean — will continue to travel to the west side for his discounted prices.

Speakman says customers who haven’t picked up their cleaning from the downtown or east-side stores can go to the west-side one.

“Everything’s here.”

This story was originally published August 24, 2018 at 3:59 PM.