Something More

Something More sells antiques and consignment goods from a location on South Tamiami Trail in south Venice, offering shoppers an alternative to the antique dealers clustered on Miami Avenue West in the historic downtown a few miles north. A shop combining antiques with a broader consignment inventory tends to carry a wider mix of merchandise, furniture, decor, and household items alongside more traditional antique pieces, giving customers a reason to browse regularly rather than only when hunting for a specific item.

South Venice’s population has grown considerably over the past two decades as development has spread from the historic core toward Wellen Park and the surrounding communities, and a shop like Something More serves that expanding local population directly, offering an antique and consignment shopping option without requiring a drive into the more tourist oriented, historic downtown district. Consignment shops in particular depend on a steady local base of sellers as well as buyers, residents furnishing and refurnishing homes as circumstances change.

Tamiami Trail has served as the main commercial artery through this part of Sarasota County for decades, and antique and consignment shops along the highway benefit from steady drive-by visibility, even as much of downtown Venice’s antique trade concentrates on the more pedestrian focused blocks of Miami Avenue West. Something More’s location gives south Venice residents a local option that fits the growing, more car dependent character of this part of the city.

As an independently owned antique and consignment shop, Something More gives south Venice shoppers a locally run alternative to the antique dealers concentrated downtown, contributing another option to the range of secondhand and vintage retail spread across Venice’s expanding footprint.

South Venice’s rapid growth in recent years, driven substantially by the Wellen Park development and the arrival of CoolToday Park, spring training home of the Atlanta Braves since 2019, has brought a much larger year round population to this part of the city than existed a generation ago. That growth has created steady local demand for antique and consignment shops like Something More, serving residents furnishing new homes in the area’s rapidly expanding subdivisions, a customer base quite distinct from the antique collectors who make Miami Avenue West downtown their primary destination several miles to the north.

That newer customer base has changed the character of south Venice retail considerably, an area that supported very little specialty shopping of any kind within recent living memory for many longtime county residents.