SPRINGFIELD — EcoBuilding Bargains — a 23-year-old marketplace for recycled building materials and home furnishings that featured on the PBS home improvement show “This Old House” – is closing.

The store is closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but a clearance sale begins Thursday with 25 to 50 percent off items such as cabinets, woodwork, windows, lumber, toilets and sinks, said Emily Gaylord, director of communications and relationship development for the parent organization Center for EcoTechnology in Dalton.

The store also sells shelving, forklifts and other equipment.

The clearance sale will likely continue into October, depending on how quickly supplies run out, the company said. EcoBuilding Bargains had already stopped accepting donations.

Nine people will lose their jobs. The employees were informed on Monday.

The The Center for EcoTechnology, a nonprofit organization that studies climate change, has subsidized EcoBuilding Bargains, she said. The center wants to focus more on its large-scale energy and waste reduction efforts, such as working with institutions and companies to reduce waste, switch energy use to green energy and increase energy efficiency.

“It just doesn’t fit with the goals and strengths of our organization,” she said. “But yes, we loved the store very much and are very sad to see it close.”

The cast and crew of the Emmy-winning series “This Old House” made repeated visits and filmed question-and-answer segments for the PBS home improvement show.

Gaylor said the Center for EcoTechnology will sell its building at 83 Warwick Street, which sits on 1.6 acres of land, according to city tax records.

The company has been trying to sell the business since November 2023, but there have been no interested parties, Gaylord said.

“I think it’s the economies of scale that the reuse market is currently failing to achieve,” she said.

Shoppers could always browse the Springfield store and come up with a project that fits with what they find. But if they’re looking for a specific item, they may be out of luck until someone donates it. A national database would help, Gaylord said, “EcoBuilding Bargains has shipped goods to every state.”

“If someone could do that, I think the endeavor would be successful,” Gaylord said.

Consumers are now more interested than ever in reusing building materials and furnishings, she said. Reuse is trending.

“We have definitely seen a greater market demand for such things,” she said

But more and more people are turning to local “Buy Nothing” groups, Facebook Marketplace and eBay to buy and sell.

Habitat For Humanity operates locations of its ReStore recycling stores in Pittsfield, Worcester and Bloomfield, Connecticut.

EcoBuilding Bargains opened on Albany Street in 2001 and moved into a 100-year-old former National Biscuit Co. warehouse at 83 Warwick Street in November 2011 after a $3.3 million renovation. At other times in its history, the Warwick Street building was used as a fur warehouse by Steiger’s department store and was the distribution warehouse for Kavanaugh Furniture.

EcoBuilding Bargains was busy providing low-cost materials for repairs after the 2011 tornado and salvaging historic elements of buildings that had to be demolished.

“I think being part of the fabric of Springfield was a very important part of the store,” Gaylord said.