It closed today with no warning to employees or building owner Larry Lewis, leaving numerous people “blown away and shocked,” according to Jeri Lewis, the building owner’s daughter-in-law.
“Nobody saw it coming,” Jeri Lewis said.
Numerous downtown businesses, including Gracie's, Triple Moon Coffee, Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop and The Swire Inn have reached out, Lewis said, offering jobs to former Blast Furnace Pizza employees and providing ideas for what could replace the closed restaurant.
Brown's Run Country Club & Event Center officials reached out to Lewis to ask how they could help non-profit Joseph's Legacy, which had a fundraising event scheduled for Blast Furnace Pizza on Thursday, she said.
“I think that’s a beautiful thing,” she said. “The community is coming out of the woodwork. When things like this happen, it’s unfortunate and we either sink or swim, and Middletown will swim.”
There are already four potential businesses lined up to replace the pizza place, according to Lewis.
“It’s not going to stay empty very long,” she said.
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