February 1st, 2025 marked the 64th anniversary of Dressew. Reflecting on our decades serving the creative community of Vancouver and beyond, we remain grateful for your support. Dressew.com continues to reach new sewists and crafty people across Canada and the United States with over 11,000 products and counting. Our brick and mortar store remains open Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 5pm, still boarded up to protect our windows.
Unfortunately we don't have any news regarding the sale of our buildings and the future of Dressew. What we can do is offer clarification on some frequently asked questions.
We are NOT going out of business, and the business is NOT for sale.
We do not know when we will be closing / moving the store.
We are selling the building in which the store is located on West Hastings St, as well as our warehouse buildings on East Cordova St.
Once sold (which has not happened yet), we are expecting to stay in our Hastings location while the new owners work out development permits with the city. This is speculative on our part of course, but the most likely scenario.
And once sold, we are hoping to move Dressew to a new location outside of downtown Vancouver. How far outside remains to be seen, and we won't know the budget we have to work with until the building sell.
Hopefully we will have some actual developments for you in the months to come, which we will pass along as soon as we can. Again, we thank you for your support of Dressew over the last 64 years and hopefully many more to come!