The old Sarkis Oriental Rug building has been sold to a group that plans to turn it into an arts and music events space that sells alcohol. Renovate Urban Properties LLC bought the building at ...

Front Yard Bikes, a nonprofit organization that teaches children how to build bicycles, has purchased the old Sarkis Oriental Rug building on Government Street for $400,000.

From Friday to Sunday, Nov. 12-14, 400 items from the estate of Sarkis Kaltakdjian will be auctioned, among over 1100 lots consisting of art, antiques and oriental rugs.

But no rugs. "The bird in the Audubon looked like a chicken," Lubna Culbert said, "so we went to Sarkis (Oriental Rugs Gallery) and turned it in and got a rug." ...

A local entrepreneur wants to turn the Sarkis Oriental Rugs building on Government Street into an arts and music events space that sells alcohol. Devin Broome will go before the city-parish ...