Boulder’s Maclaren Markowitz Gallery closing

BOULDER — Maclaren Markowitz Gallery, a Boulder fixture for 25 years, is closing.

The decision occurred when looking at the upcoming budget.

“It just wasn’t practical anymore,´ said owner Marilyn Reynolds. The store would need a 6 to 8 percent increase in sales just to break even, and she knew, given the past few years, that was unlikely.

Reynolds cited a combination of factors leading to her financial woes, including four years of a soft economy, the city of Boulder’s lack of responsiveness to downtown businesses and the local community’s shopping less in Boulder and more at Broomfield’s FlatIron Crossing mall.

When the gallery’s…