offthehookart: Furniture Stores

businessman has purchased the former Gilbert's Furniture building in downtown Reading and plans to reopen it as a furniture store. Tano Cubas signed the papers Thursday morning to take over the property at 300 Penn St. "I live in the city," said Cubas The former furniture store has been for sale for quite some time. Now, a businessman familiar to the Wabash Valley owns the property, and his plans for its future could attract the outdoor demographic. The property of the former Furniture Gallery in Terre Representatives of the 93 Bassett Furniture corporate- and licensee-owned stores came to Bassett from Greensboro, N.C., on buses for the company’s annual retail conference. Generally, the conference is moved to different locations nationwide, near a Office furniture is one of the major revenue generators in the furniture market in the US. Office furniture is designed specifically for use in office settings. Such furniture have an average lifespan of 8-11 years, after which it is generally replaced Flames, smoke and water badly damaged a West Lebanon business early Sunday morning. Firefighters were called to Defelice Family Furniture on Main Street around 3:45 a.m. Officials said the sprinkler system had already extinguished the flames, but crews MERRILLVILLE | The town’s Board of Zoning Appeals on Wednesday approved a special exception for a proposed child care center, two lots for potential restaurants and a furniture store. The Treasured Futures Childcare center is proposed to open in the .

FARGO – When it started up in the late 1960s, the St. Francis Thrift Store in Fargo was the only place in town for families struggling to get by. 45 years later, the store not only provides clothes, appliances and furniture, it takes all the profits and IKEA furniture may be all the rage Vasquez also made the shop's front desk and is making shelves and racks for Homebase's new Easton store. "Any time we need something made, we can call on him and he does a great job," said Po, who has known Vasquez Good Wood Furniture at 1610 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. in West Ashley is expanding. The longtime locally owned furniture store is going from 10,000 square feet to about 21,000 square feet by taking over a former fabric shop next to it, owner Vincent Gibbs said. The fire was reported just after 10 a.m. at Colfax Furniture at 801 Silas Creek Parkway. There is no word on injuries. A WXII photographer said smoke could be seen outside the structure but not flames. Firefighters were seen going inside the building. .