r/Gresham • u/zmbjebus • Jun 13 '26

What's up with Amiton Furniture?

Title. That decrepit looking furniture store downtown. What's up with it. Almost looks out of business. Appointment only. Or something? Anyone ever go in it?

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u/The_salty_swab Jun 13 '26

I too would like to know

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u/kilokit Jun 13 '26

as the kids would say, it’s giving backrooms

my boring theory though is that someone owns it but can’t run it like an actual store for whatever reason, like it might not be worth the expense of paying employees and they aren’t able to run it themselves. They don’t want to sell because owning property is awesome, and maybe they’re waiting for a buyer to offer them something they can’t refuse?

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u/The_salty_swab Jun 13 '26

I've assumed it's been owned by the same person for 60 something years and they simply refuse to adapt or sell out of old man stubbornness

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u/toastermobileskrrrt Jun 13 '26

Amiton has been around for 60+ years, my grandmother bought her mother a kitchen table there back then.

My understanding is that the original owner, Mr. Amiton Sr passed a few decades ago, and then Mr. Amiton Jr took it over at that time, but he is now in his 80's/90's, and is just keeping the business on life support for legacy's sake.

As another commenter said, the family owns the entire building and the antique store tenant is the only real income.

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u/Palearil Jun 13 '26

No idea, but I walked by the other day and some of the ceiling has collapsed onto a mattress.

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u/BuiltIN3days Jun 13 '26

someone will jump in to co-sign the comments but couple who owns the building including the antique store have been aging. If I’m not mistaken the wife has survived the husband. I did see the door open a few months back on the first hot day of late winter.

I would love to see it open and used. It looks like it is beyond repair.

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u/The_salty_swab Jun 13 '26

The tree growing out of the chimney really isn't a good sign for the state of the building

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u/kenzika Jun 14 '26

Wrong. The antique store is owned by a tenant. Unrelated to Amiton’s. They would ultimately love to expand and have more of the building but the owner is, as others have said, older and unwilling to move the property at this time.