Beaverton Craft Warehouse plans to shut doors in May due to rising costs

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, January 22, 2025

A familiar business at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton will be shutting its doors, but you still have time to shop for big bargains.

The Beaverton Craft Warehouse store and another metro location, at 13503 Southeast Mill Plain Blvd. in Vancouver, Washington, have announced plans to close shop. However the stores will be holding an inventory liquidation sale for the next several weeks, according to store owner Rob Williams.

“We’re scaling back,” Williams said, noting that four other family-owned Craft Warehouse locations will remain in business.

“Costs are up in every single category … our customer count has been flat or down,” Williams said of the Cedar Hills Crossing location. “It just got to where it was not profitable.”

The Beaverton location opened in April 2017. For the moment, the store will remain open, with regular hours, while they go through inventory.

“Everything is at least 15% off, but we have lots of categories that are 40%, 50% and 60% off,” Williams said. “There is a lot of inventory that’s not on the sales floor yet. This is kind of a last-minute development. It came about right about Christmastime.”

Williams said, “We have products coming that are already committed and paid for, and we have a warehouse that we haven’t even begun to start emptying out, so customers can find new stuff a couple of times a week.”

As to when the Beaverton location will completely shut down, Williams said, “We’ll wrap up sometime in the month of May. It just kind of depends on how fast the product goes.”

Williams is not ruling out a return to Beaverton in the future.

“We haven’t closed that door,” he said. “But with our current cost structure, at this location, it didn’t make sense to continue to go forward.”

Williams has enjoyed the support he has received from the Beaverton community.

“There’s a lot of disappointment, because we do things a little different than the national guys,” he said. “Our customer base tends to follow the creativity and inspiration we have in the store. They can still find that at our other locations.”

Craft Warehouse will continue to operate stores in Gresham; Hazel Dell, Washington; Kennewick, Washington; and Meridian, Idaho.