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DOWNTOWN

Downtown chic

Boutique owner Kathryn Couch pushes fashion forward
K Couch’s first job after college was with Lilly Pulitzer

Kathryn Couch, owner/operator of Pink Stable, a women’s place to start a family.”
boutique on Broad Street, is riding high in Camden.

“Owning and running a small business in such an in Charlotte, N.C., but acknowledging there are great
attractive, quaint and busy downtown is a dream come advantages to life in a larger city, it just wasn’t for her.
true,” says Couch.
Couch loves Camden, but she’s high on the city for both
From Greeleyville, S.C., she and her husband became aesthetic and practical reasons.
familiar with Camden 10 years ago. With his parents
living on Lake Wateree, they were always coming through “Camden’s downtown is really wonderful -- and there’s
town. Finally, they decided to move here themselves. a lot of foot traffic -- it’s very busy down here,” she says.
“Moving to the Broad Street location has upped our
“I really love that it’s a small town, but you’re really not traffic significantly.”
missing anything because Camden really has so much.”
With her success in Camden, Couch has expanded to
“Day-to-day living is easy -- we have great schools, easy neighboring Lugoff, adding formal wear and wedding
access to I-20, and just minutes from the lake. It’s a great planning to her business.

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