TIBURON, Calif. (KRON) -- The Candy Store on Main Street in Tiburon is closing after 27 years. The owner of the iconic candy store says a major rent hike is forcing her to close the shop. KRON4 spoke with customers and the owner about what kind of loss this will be for the town. After nearly three decades of providing sweet treats, The Candy Store on Main Street in Tiburon is closing. The store was packed with people on Sunday, trying to get their favorite candies one last time. Seafood City to open new location in Peninsula ”Tiburon is not tiburon without this candy store.” ”It’s a destination for the kids to come downtown and get the candy.” ”It’s kind of sad to see a childhood memory go away.” Those are the words from customers of the iconic candy shop. The shop is a sweet childhood memory for the owner too. ”I’m heartbroken," Torres said. "I really am. This has been half of my life: 16 years.” Torres grew up in Tiburon and worked at the candy store in high school. In 2015 when the original owners wanted to sell, she left her job as a teacher and bought it at just 24 years old. "I closed up that night, and I was a business owner,” Torres said. Handel’s ice cream shop opens first location in Bay Area Torres says in the last nine years, she's experienced the ups and downs of running a business in a seasonal tourist town. She's proud to have survived the pandemic. “I moved heaven and earth just to stay here, keep it profitable, keep paying the rent. I never missed a payment," she said. Torres says she was trying to renew her lease on Main Street, but when her landlord hiked the rent 60 percent, she says she made the difficult decision to close. “It all happened pretty quickly after I realized they were not willing to negotiate at all," Torres said. "I even had a broker talk with them. Then I realized I would have to close. I would have to jump through hoops to stay.” Torres says this has other small businesses on main worried about being pushed out too. "They’ve come up to me, they are nervous, they are nervous that having one end of the street be at such a high rate that it would cause their rate to skyrocket," Torres said. As word got out about the closure, the support came flooding in from the community. “A lot of people came and asked me what I needed, what I wanted," Torres said. "People offered to invest, pay the rent. People were very nice and considerate.” A GoFundMe page was set up to save the candy shop. It’s raised more than $6,000. Torres hopes one day she can open the shop in a new location, but for now, it's farewell. “Almost everyone I’ve ever met has come by to say goodbye to the candy store,” she said Two San Francisco spots among ‘North America’s 50 Best Bars’ As the doors close for good, people are still hopeful the candy shop will be back. Torres is hoping to keep this sweet tradition alive by opening another candy store somewhere else in town-- with a different landlord. KRON4 reached out to her current landlord, but we did not hear back in time for this report.