By CLAYTON PARK

Two longtime Fremont businesses are calling it quits, while another is awaits relocation to the next block.

Meanwhile, developers of a large mixed-use project are planning to give the neighborhood known as "The Center of the Universe" a new look.

The following is a rundown of the changes:

GLAMORAMA

Charlotte Buchanan, owner of Glamorama, has announced that Jan. 15 will, in fact, be her store's last day, after 20 years - the first 10 in Idaho where she started her eclectic gift shop and the last 10 in Fremont, at 3414 Fremont Ave. N.

Buchanan, who is throwing a "Center of the Universe Ball" on New Year's Eve to celebrate her impending "retirement," said she initially contemplated selling the business, but decided in recent weeks that it would be best to simply close the store instead. "I never realized it before, but I guess it (Glamorama) IS me," she said.

Buchanan, 46, remains full of creativity and energy. She says she's still having a great time running Glamorama, but adds that's precisely why she wants to call it quits now, à la Seinfeld - while she's still on top. "I know in my heart that it's time for my next adventure," she says.

However, not without a few mementos of her soon-to-be-wrapped-up current adventure. "The (store) photo booth's going in my kitchen ... that's been my childhood dream," says Buchanan, "and the giant wedding cake (that currently hanging upside-down from the ceiling of the shop) will be stashed at a friend's place."

Count on Buchanan to leave her legions of loyal customers laughing, just as she has throughout her colorful 20-years as Glamorama's "Miss Management." On Jan. 15, the shop's final day of business, Buchanan plans to hold a "Smoke Damage Sale," but the smoke won't be from a fire. "I plan to have everyone smoke cigarettes," she explains. "I don't even smoke but I will that day!"

Buchanan, who hopes to own a motel in her next career, will still be around to keep Fremont locals entertained as one of the producers of the popular Original Fremont Outdoor Cinema Series. The film/concert series is held during the summer in the parking lot behind the Red Door Ale House.

RED DOOR ALE HOUSE

Speaking of the Red Door Ale House, the popular Fremont watering hole that opened in 1987 is slated to eventually move, along with the century-old building it currently occupies on the corner of N. 34th and Fremont Avenue N, to the northwest corner of Evanston and N. 34th - which is one block to the west.

The building is slated to be moved within the next two years, possibly as soon as the fall of 2000, according to a recent article in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.

The reason for the move is to make way for the construction of a new multi-story mixed-used building planned by a development group called Fremont Housing Group, an off-shoot of Security Properties. The project, scheduled to be completed by the spring of 2002, will contain 33,000-square-feet of ground-level retail shops and restaurants and 128 market-rate apartments, including three live/work lofts.

AH NUTS!

Another longtime Fremont shop that recently closed is Ah Nuts!, the second-hand store located on the corner of Evanston and Fremont Place N, whose location was marked by the famous Fremont Rocket landmark.

Ah Nuts! owner Josh Logan, who held his last day of business on Dec. 26, decided to close his Fremont store after 10 years when he was unable to secure a new lease from his landlord.

Logan, who had been splitting his time running two stores for the past couple of years, will now be free to focus on running just his Capitol Hill store: Fibber McGee's Closet.

"It's a little different, a little less junky," he said, when asked to describe Fibber McGee's. "For one thing, no tools."

But Ah Nuts! customers can rest assured that Logan's new store will still have the famous "Vincent Price in a Wheelchair" wax dummy, the "coffin with a skeleton dummy,: the "13-foot-tall phallic totem pole from New Guinea," "real animal skulls," and, of course, plenty of "cool knick-knacks."

Logan will also be able to work only three doors away from Molly's Attic, a shop run by his girlfriend, Paulette Hughes.

If the names of the two shops sound familiar, it's for good reason: both are named after the popular old-time radio show, Fibber McGee & Molly.

Logan, a former country music DJ, has been buying and selling second-hand collectibles and goods since 1971, when he took over a shop in Aberdeen called Kathy's Closet. He moved the business to Greenwood in 1983 and renamed it Ah Nuts! upon moving it to Fremont in 1989.

"My favorite memories of Fremont will be the coolness of the people and the Fremont Sunday Market," he says.

While Logan is moving, the Fremont Rocket, which has served as a landmark, not only for Ah Nuts! but for the neighborhood as well, is staying put. "The Rocket belongs to the City of Fremont," says Logan.