Kaboodle Home Store Takes Over Traders Space

Kaboodle Home Store, is replacing East Atlanta Village's Traders Neighborhood Store, which closed earlier this summer.

Kaboodle, which will feature locally-made products from Atlanta-based artists and furniture makers.

Kaboodle's owner, Michael Knight, was one of the owners of Traders, which had been a destination retailer and anchor business of the Village for some 15 years.

Its closure follows the closure of Area, a sister store to Traders that Knight and his then-business partner, Shawn Ergle, opened in 2004 in the Edgewood Retail District.

Area closed in 2009 as consumers pulled back on spending in the Great Recession.