Former site of Remarkable Bookstore is sold

The former home of Westport”™s Remarkable Bookstore has been sold.

The 3,924-square-foot building at 177 Main St. was sold for an undisclosed sum to Elish Van Breems Home, a Westport-based company offering offers interior design services and a line of historically inspired Swedish furniture.

Remarkable Bookstore closed in 1994 but is still widely remembered with fondness by many longtime Westport residents. The property”™s most recent tenant, Local to Market, opened last July as a grocery store with Connecticut-based foods but closed in April.

Saugatuck Commercial Real Estate represented the property owner, United Realty, in the transaction and CBRE represented the buyer.