Coldwater, the clothing store owned by three brothers in Japantown, is closing because the building was sold.<\/p>\n
Jason and his brothers Brian and Averill Nemedez are starting the painful transition of finding another place to operate Coldwater. The brothers each grew up with an interest in designing clothing, and developed individual lines they sold from their garage, ultimately leading to their own store.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, if you told me at 15 years old, we would be owning a shop in the heart of Japantown, I wouldn\u2019t believe you. But we started doing this at a really young age, started doing art at a young age and just working and grinding, hustling got us to this point,\u201d Jason Nemedez said.<\/p>\n
The name Coldwater pays homage to their grandmother and the street where the boys grew up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Japantown shop attracted young buyers to, what they called, their \u2018Jubo\u2019 clothing line.<\/p>\n
Their designs are inspired by various influences including their Filipino culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was easy. We just took a lot of pieces from our life, a lot of pieces from stories that we heard, we just translated it into art. We wanted to, basically, typically tell our story through art,\u201d Jason said.<\/p>\n
Over four years, Coldwater evolved into a place for trendy and offbeat merchandise as well as a spot for community arts projects. \u00a0<\/p>\n
But now the brothers say they need to find another space, because\u00a0the building was sold. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really disappointing. This place seems really unique. Especially because all of the neighbors seem really traditional. \u00a0It\u2019s a little more of a modern spot. I\u2019m sad it\u2019s closing,\u201d San Jose resident Miya said.<\/p>\n
But the brothers have come too far to give up.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, very bittersweet. I’d like to see it more optimistically, taken that we\u2019ve been here four years. We\u2019ve, you know, contributed to the community around here, and try to enjoy the time we are here and looking forward to the opportunity in the future,\u201d Brian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHeartbroken. But, you know, you can\u2019t stay on that feeling for too long, you gotta keep moving, so we\u2019re looking for new leads, so hopefully we\u2019ll find a new spot and onto bigger and better things,\u201d Jason said.<\/p>\n
Coldwater will be located on Fifth and Jackson Streets until Oct. 31, so while Japantown is celebrating Halloween, the brothers will be celebrating the end of this stage of their journey and moving on to the next.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coldwater, the clothing store owned by three brothers in Japantown, is closing because the building was sold. Jason…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-431336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}