On Thursday, Hillsborough Street will be saying goodbye to some of the shops located across from D.H. Hill Library. Due to redevelopment of the building which formerly housed The Alley, businesses located there will be permanently moving out. Both University Cuts and Triangle Toner and Ink will close down their Hillsborough locations by the end of the week.

Reverie, the coffee shop located next to University Cuts, has already shut down. A notice was left on their door, thanking their customers for their continued support over the years and wishing them all the best in the future. The florist’s shop next to them has received a month’s extension on their lease through the building new landlord.

The redevelopment, caused by the termination of The Alley’s lease and subsequent end to their monthly leases to the other shops in the building, will include the opening of a new Target on the building’s upper level. The street-level stores will be renovated for new tenants.

Jason Barishman, owner of Triangle Toner and Ink, said they will be moving to their new location across from the Costco at 404 East Six Forks Road on Thursday morning.

“We’ll still be open,” Barishman said. “Unfortunately we won’t be that close to campus anymore, but welcome all students, faculty and staff at our new location.”

Having not been so lucky, University Cuts had yet to start packing up on Wednesday. Master barber Tony McDowell said they had not found a new location so far.

“The new landlords said the they would help us out,” McDowell said. “But we haven’t heard back from them. We don’t know yet. We might have to pack up and move somewhere temporary.”

McDowell said they were only officially informed they would have to move out of the building less than a month ago, when they received a letter of notice from West End Bowl, LLC, relaying that their master lease had had expired, and the new landlord would be taking over on Dec. 1 unless some other agreement with the new landlord was made.

“When the kids came back to school in August we heard some rumors,” McDowell said. “We didn’t know for sure until we got the letter in October.”

McDowell said many of the shops in the building have been here for years. Reverie had been in business for 10 years, and the florist shop has ran for over 25 years.

According to Barishman, small shops like these won’t be the one’s returning once the building’s redevelopment is complete next year.

“The new landlords are going to want high-end tenants – ones that can pay high rent,” Barishman said. “[Hillsborough Street]’s going through major changes, and it’s going to be all corporate. The days of the mom and pops shops are done. Parking is already horrible, traffic’s a disaster, and where would they get their deliveries? I don’t know how they’re going to do it.”

Joseph Scurto, who works at University Cuts, said it is a shame to have to leave, as they get a good amount of business at the current location.

“We do pretty good,” Scurto said. “We get a lot of college kids because our prices are low. If you were to go to Cary haircuts would be almost double. The effects of leaving for us will really be a loss in revenue.”

Scurto will most likely go and find work at a barber shop in Cary if they cannot find a new location. However, he worries as to what will happen to McDowell.

“I’m old, and I could be done after this,” Scurto said. “But he’s young. I don’t know what he’ll do.”