Hardware Hank named business of the year

The store at the southwest corner of Second Avenue and Main Street in Boulder has long been a hardware store, and now it has a new distinction: business of the year.

Hardware Hank was named the 2021 business of the year by the Jefferson Local Development Corporation and was recognized for the award at the JLDC’s annual dinner on Oct. 20 in Whitehall. The award, according to a plaque presented to Cory Kirsch, Hawdware Hank’s owner, recognized the longtime hardware store “for being a progressive business committed to excellence.”

At the store on Tuesday morning, Kirsch, who also serves as a Jefferson County Commissioner and as the chief of the Boulder-Bull Mountain Rural Volunteer Fire Department, said this was the first time the business had received the award, calling it “a big honor.”