Main Street Tees opens retail shop in downtown Milford

After five years without a retail shop, Milford's own Main Street Tees finally has an address along its namesake road.

The T-shirt and printing company opened a storefront in downtown Milford. Located at 338 N. Main St., the shop is a testament to the work owners Aaron and Megan Moorhouse can do when it comes to creating images on shirts and other items.

"We wanted to open a storefront to offer retail selection and also to support businesses and events and stuff like that," he said. "We wanted the foot traffic and the exposure."

The new shop occupies the space formerly held by Hearts and Hands Home Health Care. The shop opened during Milford Memories after the couple completed extensive renovations to the interior. Inside, they sell shirts and other gift items, with most of them being printed by them. 

Inside, shoppers can see a range of the type of work the shop does, including on T-shirts, mugs and more. In addition to the premade prints they sell, Aaron Moorhouse said the new shop allows customers to walk right in with an idea and work with them to create custom products that meet their needs.

"A lot of the selection, we try to showcase a lot of different availability of stuff," he said. "People can bring their ideas or a design. If you bring in an idea, I have access to hundreds of thousands of designs I can pick through."

Customers who stop by the store looking for seasonal products are also in luck. As the leaves change color, so do the displays at Main Street Tees: transitioning out are celebrations of summer like shirts that say "Lake Life" and in are shirts paying homage to fall favorites like pumpkins. 

"Every holiday and season, we'll switch it," Aaron Moorhouse said. 

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Despite the local shop, the Moorhouses said they'll continue working with businesses from across the country, as they've done since they first launched. Customers who find Main Street Tees online can continue to work with the company for creating and shipping orders across the country.

As the Milford shop finds its footing, Aaron Moorhouse said he hopes to open other shops in the future, especially in walkable downtown vacation communities such as Grand Haven. 

"Milford Memories solidified that we need to be in a town that has constant foot traffic," he said. 

More information can be found online at mainstreetteesmilford.com.

Contact reporter David Veselenak at dveselenak@hometownlife.com or 734-678-6728. Follow him on Twitter @davidveselenak.