Expand<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cMy brother, Chris, said we should have a hardware store,\u201d Justin Taffera said. \u201cEvery Sunday, when we were at my mom\u2019s for dinner, he kept bringing it up. I started looking into it and before I knew it, I was like, \u2018I think you\u2019re right. We should open a hardware store.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
When Adam Taffera died in 2023 at the age of 37, Chris and Justin Taffera ramped up their search for a vacant space to establish the business.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight after our brother passed, we started looking everywhere for a store,\u201d Justin Taffera said. \u201cWe\u2019re all from Dunmore and we tried to stay in Dunmore but it didn\u2019t work out. Trying to find a 10,000-square-foot building is a little tricky. We were looking down in Wilkes-Barre, Kingston and Archbald. We put in some offers, had some negotiations back and forth, but nobody wanted to let us buy the building outright.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, the Tafferas found the property at 500 N. Main Ave. \u2014 formerly home to a Rite Aid store \u2014 and agreed to a contract where they will purchase the building after leasing it for two years, Justin Taffera said.<\/p>\n
A grand opening for Adam\u2019s Hardware \u2014 a TrueValue store \u2014 will be held May 15 following a soft opening this month.<\/p>\n
Following some discussions, the Tafferas decided to pay homage to their brother, Adam, with the name of the business.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kept going back and forth, and one day, one of us said we should name it after Adam,\u201d Justin Taffera said. \u201cWe needed something quick and we were doing it for him regardless. What a better way to have Adam\u2019s name on the building of a place me and my older brother get to go to every day, work together, and really provide something for the community with our brother\u2019s legacy. It\u2019s such a huge part of our family. We were brought up so close to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Taffera brothers believe the new hardware store will be a valuable addition to the West Scranton neighborhood as there are none in the immediate area.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to drive over to Keyser Avenue for a Gerrity\u2019s Ace or you have to jump on the highway and go to Lowe\u2019s or Home Depot,\u201d Justin Taffera said. \u201cFrom our store down through the downtown and over to South Side, there are very little to no hardware stores. That\u2019s how we kind of ended up at that location. After we did the demographics, the pro formas and the traffic studies, it was kind of a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n
After initially considering operating an Ace Hardware franchise, the Tafferas opted to go with TrueValue.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur plan was to go with Ace, and after we saw the franchise side of it, we loved TrueValue,\u201d Justin Taffera said. \u201cThey\u2019ve helped us tremendously and we\u2019ve met so many great people. TrueValue gives you a little bit more freedom. If you sold paintbrushes, I could sell your paintbrushes in our TrueValue. I think having that community feel, especially in this part of Pennsylvania, is such a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justin Taffera noted the brothers aim to open another hardware store within the next two years.<\/p>\n
Chris Taffera also feels the new business should thrive and serve a vital purpose on North Main Avenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the store could provide a crucial asset to a part of town where there is no hardware store,\u201d he said. \u201cThe most important thing is that we\u2019re doing it as a family. We had a lot of fun with this project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris and Justin Taffera sought to open a hardware store to honor their late brother, Adam, and found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-170991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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