The owners of Reliable Market are proposing to demolish the former Phillips Hardware store on Circuit avenue in order to build a new Victorian-style mixed use building that would have retail space and housing. 

Owner Lori Katsounakis is seeing customers by appointment at the 52 Circuit avenue clothing and gift store, which sustained significant damage to its facade in the Nov. 22 crash.

A rising number of vacancies and a shift toward more seasonal businesses on Circuit avenue have business owners and town officials looking at ways to keep the street vital all year long.

Charles Hajjar and Doug Abdelnour purchased the Circuit avenue property Friday for $4.9 million and plan to open a fast-casual restaurant there.

Island tourism officials analyzed the summer’s successes and discussed looming challenges at a conference hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce in Edgartown this week.

After four years of donating a portion of proceeds from its original Vineyardopoly game to Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, The Lazy Frog has