{"id":161620,"date":"2026-02-19T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161620\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:58:08","slug":"ruby-and-rust-to-close-doors-by-end-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161620\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby and Rust to close doors by end of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h909177-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Amid turmoil in Downtown Winter Garden, small business are being forced to close, either due to new landlords or increase in rent prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Among those businesses, Ruby and Rust took to social media to announce its closure as well after five-and-one-half years in Winter Garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;With all the new property purchases happening downtown, rents are going up at astronomical rates, ours included,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;Money talks, we get it! And we just can&#8217;t compete with that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The owner, Kim Orme, said the decision was &#8220;thrown&#8221; at her, and it was &#8220;much needed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;The truth is, I&#8217;ve been so overwhelmed and exhausted,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My soul needs a break, a refocus, to get realigned to my purpose.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">While the store will close its doors, the Ruby and Rust website will remain active and plant sales still will take place, either through delivery or shipping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">In-home consults, classes for kids and adults and local markets will also continue until a forever home is found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909177-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;I know this new plan is not ideal for some of our customers and it&#8217;s not a decision that I took lightly,&#8221; Orme said. &#8220;If you have any ideas, collabs or hopefulness, please reach out.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid turmoil in Downtown Winter Garden, small business are being forced to close, either due to new landlords&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-161620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}