Everything Old is New Again: Noblesville Antiques on the Square Reopens Under New Owner

Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing . Photographer / Amy Payne

or 30 years Jill Janusiewicz cleaned houses while raising her three daughters, Avery, Abigail and Kayte. All the while she was attending college, and in 2016 she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. During the summer of 2017, Janusiewicz began working as a clerk at the Noblesville Antique Mall. She later became the store’s manager.

In March, however, Noblesville Antique Mall closed its doors. The lease ended in June and the previous owners weren’t looking to renew. The landlord, however, knew Janusiewicz well and said he would be happy if she chose to take over the lease. She thought it seemed like a great opportunity, as she has enjoyed building relationships with customers and dealers for more than three years. On July 1, Janusiewicz signed a new lease and hit the ground running so she could reopen the shop on August.

“It was a completely empty, 10,000-squarefoot building that had not been painted in 40-plus years, so we took the opportunity to clean and paint it from ceiling to floor - all three levels,” Janusiewicz says.

When she says “we,” she’s referring to the group effort that involved her staff, dealers and loyal customers, all of whom pitched in to help. open up 30 days later was astounding,” says Janusiewicz, who logged 15- to 17-hour days during the month of July. “If it wasn’t for all these people, we would not have been able to open on August 1.”

Opening day of the renamed Noblesville Antiques on the Square exceeded Janusiewicz’s expectations. She was pleased that 95% of the original dealers came back, along with 15 new ones. Her customers were eager to return as well.

“The city has been nothing but positive,” she says. “This place is a staple in our town. A 40-year-old business like this one you can’t just shut down, or else it hurts the whole town, because people come in from all over and shop here, plus the other shops.”

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Janusiewicz has been enamored with antiques ever since her first trip to an antique store when she was 9 years old.

“I got an Avon perfume bottle with this blue and white design on it,” she says.

Now she collects china, and currently owns seven different sets.

“I use every bit of it,” she says. “If I have it, I’m using it.”

Noblesville Antiques on the Square features old coins, vintage jewelry, vinyl records, tin signs and vintage clothing.

“It’s endless to be honest,” says Janusiewicz, referring to the massive amount of merchandise, which is replenished daily. “Literally every single day we get fresh merchandise in from dealers, which is great because we have several die-hard customers who come in once or twice a week.”

Some may come in for old Pyrex, pottery, paper weights, postcards, or perhaps salt and pepper shakers.

“I never knew until I started working here how huge of a selection there was of vintage salt and pepper shakers, and they came up with some of the craziest combinations - poodles, umbrellas, feet or old telephones,” Janusiewicz says. “You name it and it’s a salt and pepper shaker.”

Customers also come in search of old “Life” magazine copies to give as anniversary or birthday gifts.

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One might not expect teenagers to show up in an antique shop, but Janusiewicz says she sees a steady stream of teens on a regular basis.

“The next generation loves hanging out in here,” Janusiewicz says. “Sometimes they’ll come in for a school project or just to go through vinyl records, comic books or vintage clothing.”

Even though she’s working in the same building every day, Janusiewicz is pleased that no two days are alike.

“You don’t know who you’re going to meet or the stories you’re going to hear about the pieces customers are buying,” she says. “I’ve learned a lot, both from customers and from dealers, over the past several years.”

Janusiewicz is thrilled to be the new owner and to be working on the square.

“I love the people,” she says. “I love the other merchants. I love being down here. My social life and work life is all rolled into one.”

Noblesville Antiques on the Square, open seven days a week, is located at 20 North 9th Street in Noblesville. For more information, call 317-6788150 or visit noblesville-antique-mall. business.site.

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Imagine a work environment that is located in the heart of a vibrant community, offers amenities and services to improve your health, built-in networking events and workshops that are designed to help you grow your business and live a more balanced life.

This is not a dream. This is COhatch. The goal of COhatch is to create a modern community space aimed at fostering innovation, collaboration and community. Founded in 2016, the organization is in 10 locations in three markets in Ohio, launching two more Ohio markets and Hamilton Town Center in Noblesville will be the first location in the Indianapolis market in October with an additional seven locations.

COhatch is a social enterprise offering a new kind of shared work, social and family space built on community that offers members the services, activities and amenities to live a fully integrated life that balances work, family, well-being, community and philanthropy. The space is perfect for people 18 and up, entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporations. With individual workspaces, co-working space, larger meeting spaces as well as a theatre, for part-time, full-time and some-time.

COhatch founder Matt Davis is passionate about the mission of the organization. people’s lives and we are very intentional about how we do it,” he says. “Our tagline is Work, Eat, Live. Because we want to help you thrive at work and we do that by giving you the best location, tons of meeting spaces, flexibility to move to any location, we built podcast rooms, we have presentation theater rooms to present in. Networking is a critical element of the company’s mission, so they offer free space for members to provide workshops to facilitate the development of relationships.

Providing an environment that encouraged a healthy lifestyle is another important focus of the organizations mission. So they provide free health and wellness coaching and consulting, offer a walking contest every Wednesday, a farmers market on location and healthy lifestyle workshops.

“We try to fill the void for some larger companies like HR groups where we want to get people active and have fun,” Davis adds.

Important to creating the COhatch Community is to create opportunities for members to network and develop relationships with each other.

“Pre-pandemic we offered 70-80 workshops, events and activities per month,” Davis says. “These are all done by our members, so we want our members to share what they are passionate about, the meeting room is donated and they program it because they want to drive interaction.

“We also allow families to use the space for birthday parties in our theater room, game room, can have a reunion or a fundraising event and philanthropic events that we do. That is how we started our business. We have space and we want people to use it to drive activity as well as support different parts of their lives.”

Another important mission of the company is to provide opportunities for people to volunteer on location. Davis shared that “most people like to volunteer but often don’t because they feel like they have time so we make it easy to volunteer. So we provide different volunteer opportunities.”

In addition, improving the community through philanthropy by supporting local charities was important to offer at each COhatch location, which is why they incorporated the free use of facilities on evenings and weekends through a donation to these selected charities.

So for any local non-profits interested in being considered for one of their scholarships and to use the space for free, they are encouraged to go to the website and apply.

Davis says that while it is hard to predict what the future of “the office” will be given the current climate, he says that we should not underestimate the need for culture and innovation and there is an assumption that everyone wants to work from home when that option is offered to work virtually.

“That is why we offer so many different options because companies don’t really know what they need yet,” he says. For further information about COhatch, visit them online at cohatch.com.