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Old Home Rehab, Parsons St., a business owned by Peter Carroll and Marc Ferraro....
North Coast Window Works
Peter Carroll can tell you the first rule of starting a business: “Don’t start a business in an industry you know nothing about.” But knowing the rule didn’t stop him from breaking it when he was laid off from Pfizer Inc.
in 2007 and decided to go into window repair and restoration.
“It’s been a pretty steep learning curve,” he says. “Brutal, actually.”
But chances are you’ve seen some of his work at such places as the Art Deco-period Marlborough Condominiums building, on South Street, or the Ladies’ Library Association’s Victorian building, on South Park Street.
Because his is a dying occupation, Carroll says, he’s now one of the few people who have the skill and expertise to work on historic windows in the Kalamazoo area.
Carroll’s Kalamazoo business, formerly known as Old Home Rehab, is now called North Coast Window Works.
“I’ll work on any home that’s pre-World War II,” says Carroll. “Most of my customers don’t actually live in historic neighborhoods