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Check out the ReStore in the News!!

Valley Advocate mentions the ReStore Groundbreaking Ceremony (Valley Advocate, June 2010)

ReStore to renovate former Kavanaugh warehouse (The Reminder Online, June 2010)

Follow-up Editorial to Expansion Story (The Republican, June 2010)

ReStore Home Improvement Center plans to expand into former Kavanagh Furniture Co. warehouse in Springfield (MassLive/The Republican, June 2010)

ReStore Moving to New Location (WWLP, June 2010)

ReStore featured on Sustainable Valley (93.9 The River, November 2009)

ReStore featured in The Republican (MassLive, April 2009)

Detailed video explaining the process of deconstruction (The Republican, April 2009)

Local contractor Kent Pecoy chooses deconstruction (WWLP, March 2009)

Young entrepreneur wins award (MassLive, February 2009)

ReStore On NECN (video) (NECN, November 2008)

Don't Demolish, Deconstruct! (The Republican, July 2008)

ReStore Deconstruction in Amherst (Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 2008)

Too Good to Throw Away (In Business Magazine, May-June 2006)
The Budget Makeover

See us in the February 2006 issue of Country Living Magazine. That's a sink from the ReStore on the front cover!

Do-it-yourselfers' delight (The Recorder, February 2006)

Store Expands Wood Recycling (The Republican, January 2006)

Recycling this Christmas can save money and environment (The Reminder Online, December 2005)

Williston School Aids Building Salvage Store (The Republican, August 2005)

Carpenter Crafts Manse For Mom (The Republican, May 2005)

ReStore Deconstruction (Featured in an article in Plenty Magazine)

Give and take - Recycling unwanted items saves the environment, helps others. (Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 2005)

Restoration and Deconstruction Make Store a Recycling Force (Biocycle, Journal Of Composting & Organics Recycling, April 2005)

A 5-minute video clip of the ReStore on American Builder, August 2004
(footage courtesy of CN8, Comcast Network) (requires Windows media player)

  • High-quality version 225k (High-speed Internet).
  • Low-quality version 112k (Dial-up Internet).


    • Restoration hardware (and tiles, tubs, lamps, windows). (The Boston Globe, January 2005).

    Adaptive re-use, brick by brick. (The Berkshire Eagle, January 2005).

    Green Building. ReStore Is Building Momentum for Recycling. (Business West, October 2004).

    Lenox building offers rooms for recycling. (The Advocate, August 2004).

    Building parts to be recycled (The Berkshire Eagle, August 2004).

    Builders urged to recycle waste. ReStore in Springfield cited as conduit to reuse discards. (Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 2004).

    The ReStore: The Valley's Showcase for Used Building Supplies (Green Living Journal, Summer 2004).

    Profile: The ReStore. Restoring the planet-one green toilet seat at a time. (UMASS Alumni Magazine, Spring 2004).

    Beyond ordinary gift wraps, cards (The Republican, December 2003).

    A New Trend in Home-Improvement Stores (Fine Homebuilding magazine, #160, p. 18).

    ReStore expands space for building materials (The Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 2003).

    Recycler enters world of architectural salvage (The Republican, July 2003).

    The ReStore Home Improvement Center completes major expansion (The Reminder, June 2003).

    ReStore benefits environment and the homeowner (The Wilbraham-Hampden Times, June 2003).

    Hear Public Radio International's Marketplace story about The ReStore (played June 18, 2002).

    - WFCR, public radio for western New England, reports on the ReStore, "a new store in Springfield [that] is recycling items salvaged from home renovations, both to ease pressure on landfills and to provide affordable items for home improvement." (WFCR (Morning Edition, May 2002)

    Listen to the story with Real Audio; or with Windows Media Player).

    ReStore on a mission to save mone Earth (Daily Hampshire Gazette, Hampshire Life October 2002)

    Used building materials find new life at ReStore (Springfield Union-News, September 2001)


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