Avon Lake, Ohio With over 125,000 Instagram followers, Kelsey Elizabeth (Smith) Shepard attracted quite a buzz when she posted teasers of two big announcements regarding her popular Kelsey Elizabeth Cakes (KEC) business last week. A video detailing the news is also posted on her account. Kelsey Elizabeth Cakes will be closing its Avon Lake location, 720 Avon Belden Road, in a few months.
The first announcement is that she will be closing her Avon Lake location, 720 Avon Belden Road, in a few months. The shop opened 10 years ago and was the first store to open in her growing bakery goods empire. “Big sigh.
Big tears. Big feelings,” she explained on Instagram. “We are getting kicked out of our location after 10 amazing years because the Avon Lake building sold to a new out of town owner who wants to make it a nail salon.
It truly makes me sick to my stomach. When we opened Avon Flagship (35638 Detroit Road), people always asked if we’d be closing Avon Lake, and I always responded with ‘as long as Avon Lake is making $1 at the end of the year, she will stay open. It would be far too much emotional turmoil to ever close my baby.
’” Owner Kelsey Elizabeth (Smith) Shepard and her family opened the Kelsey Elizabeth Cakes Avon Lake shop on a shoestring budget 10 years ago. Shepard found out around Easter time that her lease in Avon Lake was not going to be renewed. “It was a shock then, and continues to make me tear up when I think about it,” she said in her post.
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