Closing doors

Dallas home decor store with loyal following closes the curtains after 2 decades

Wisteria inspired many a DIY decorator.

Photo courtesy of Wisteria

UPDATE: Wednesday, July 8 is the last day to shop online, Wisteria announced in an email to customers. Everything is at least 50 percent off, and all sales are final.

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Wisteria, the much-loved Dallas luxury home furnishings and decor brand, is calling it quits after nearly two decades.

"After 19 rewarding years, our journey is coming to an end," the company wrote in an email to customers and posted on social media June 29. "Wisteria.com, along with our retail stores and outlet, will soon be closing down permanently."

Catalog mailings have been discontinued as well, they said. They did not cite a specific reason for the closure, nor hint whether it was COVID-19 related.

Shannon and Andrew Newsom founded Wisteria in 2000, primarily as a way to pay for their travels and the treasures they acquired during them. They brought back unique items for their home and sold the surplus to friends and family and via newspaper ads until they started a catalog in 2001 and, in 2004, a website.

The original store at 6500 Cedar Springs Rd. opened in 2010 and also housed the couple’s “flea market” deals in the back.

In 2015, they opened a store in ritzy Inwood Village and moved their outlet from its spot near Dallas Love Field to a 15,000-square-foot space in Farmers Branch, at 13460 Midway Rd. Their catalog grew to have national reach.

According to The Dallas Morning News, in 2018, the Newsoms sold Wisteria to UK-based OKA Direct Ltd., which had its eye on expansion. A Houston outpost opened in November 2019.

Blending furnishings and home decor with interior design accessories, Wisteria sought artisan creations from all over the world. A typical store display might evoke a seaside cottage, bringing together abstract art, a tufted coffee table, an acrylic ghost table, hand-knotted wool rug, and an African warrior vessel.

Their beautiful holiday decor displays were inspirational for festive DIY decorators, as well.

"From day one, our customers have been at the heart of everything we do, and we have loved nothing more than sharing our globally curated offerings and exclusive designs with you," their farewell post says.

One bright spot for customers: with the closing come going-out-of-business sales. Beginning June 29, all merchandise in store and online is marked down at least 50 percent, and all sales are final; find more information about final sales here. An exact closing date has not been determined.

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First-rate idea

Goodwill transforms former Plano Walgreens into first small-format store

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An old Walgreens has become a new Goodwill store in Plano.

UPDATE 7-31-2026: Due to construction delays, the store opening has been pushed back to Thursday, August 13.

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Leave it to Goodwill to find a second use for a former Walgreens. The nonprofit is transforming a vacant drugstore building in Plano into its first ever, small-format store.

According to a release, Goodwill Industries of Dallas will debut the first-of-its-kind store at 3000 McDermott Rd., Plano, on Thursday, August 6.

The organization has converted the former pharmacy into a 10,000-square-foot thrift store and donation center. For comparison, that's less than one-third of the size of the massive, 31,000-square-foot "Broadway store" that opened in Garland earlier this year as the largest Goodwill in Texas and the second largest in the U.S.

The nonprofit says the new concept is designed to serve neighborhoods with a smaller footprint while still offering a steady flow of merchandise. Shoppers can expect about 5,000 new items to hit the sales floor each day, ranging from clothing and housewares to books, toys, and other donated goods.

It's also a creative example of "adaptive reuse" for one of the many drugstores have have shuttered in recent years around Dallas-Fort Worth. (CVS, are you listening?)

The Plano location will create 70 jobs, they say, and include a donation center where residents can drop off gently used items to support Goodwill's workforce development programs.

The opening comes as resale shopping continues to surge nationwide, Goodwill notes. According to the 2024 ThredUp Resale Report, the U.S. secondhand market grew 11 percent in 2023 — seven times faster than the broader retail clothing industry — and is projected to reach $73 billion by 2028.

"This store is a blueprint for how Goodwill Dallas turns vacant spaces into neighborhood assets, creating jobs, funding workforce development, and keeping quality goods accessible to families who need them most," Goodwill Industries of Dallas president and CEO Tim Heis says in the release.

The timing is also fortuitous for shoppers: The store will debut just ahead of Texas' 2026 Tax-Free Weekend, August 7-9, which will offer clothing, footwear, school supplies, backpacks without state sales tax.

Once doors on August 6, open the Plano store will operate 9 am-9 pm Monday-Saturday and 10 am-7 pm Sunday.

Goodwill Industries of Dallas has served North Texas since 1923, using proceeds from its retail stores to fund free job training, employment placement, and career services for people facing barriers to employment across eight North Texas counties.

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