Kai Garden closed, and owners Dan (Kai) Tus and his wife, Tina, who worked the front of the house, have retired. Last year Ed Shaffran bought the Main St. building that has housed Kai Garden for twenty years. Dan and Tina have had the business on the market for a year, Shaffran says, with no takers. “The lease runs another four and a half years, until April of 2020,” but because it’s a restaurant space, “it’s not as cut-and-dried as if it were an office space. There are a lot of moving parts to the scenario. If it’s not going to continue as an Asian restaurant, we need to talk about improvements to the building.”

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