Craft Warehouse, a small local chain of arts-and-crafts stores, said Wednesday it is closing its locations in Beaverton and Vancouver.
The stores — at 13503 S.E. Mill Plain Boulevard in Vancouver and 3125 S.W. Cedar Hills Boulevard in Beaverton — are closed Wednesday to prepare for liquidation sales starting Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
“The liquidation process will take weeks to complete,” company president Greg Williams said in a news release. “The company has merchandise that was ordered before the decision to close these locations and has yet to arrive, and additional stock is in our warehouses and at vendors that will move to the stores over the next several weeks to be sold at discounted prices.”
The Williams family bought three…