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Furniture Link is not new in city, but it is new to downtown.
Derek Cleverly, operator of Jackson’s Office environment Source, is now also the new proprietor of Home furnishings Connection, and is relocating the latter into his downtown locale from its outdated mall site.
“Office supplies is the original enterprise — we added a Radio Shack franchise, we continue to have that,” Cleverly explained. “(We) bought The Print Shop from the newspaper a several many years in the past. And we’re even now working those people all entire-time, just incorporating the Household furniture Link aspect.”
Cleverly claimed the possibility just built perception.
“It matches for us mainly because as we’ve advanced, and as Craig has progressed, the character of the business enterprise is we wished a thing else to convey much more people to our retailer,” Cleverly claimed. “We noticed a want for the reason that home furnishings selections in Craig are restricted.”
The showroom flooring just west of Yampa Avenue on West Victory Way is presently decked out with couches and beds, as indicators saying the new venture’s coming are noticed from the street.
“The plans are to present a entire line of household furnishings,” Cleverly explained. “We’ve received mattresses, bed room home furnishings, living place — don’t have eating place sets however, but we’ll have them, far too. The entire is effective.”
There is loads to discover, but it seems doable to Cleverly.
“There’s solution expertise to learn materials, coverings, things like that,” he stated.
The front close of the showroom, struggling with the street, is now all home furnishings, even though the back again 50 % of the shop is workplace supplies and electronics. The full setting up, which incorporates other firms, is about 5,200 sq. ft.
“We’ve got place in the constructing we’re producing,” Cleverly mentioned. “We’re growing into that footprint.”
For now, the current staff is retraining to discover the home furniture enterprise, but that could give way to some using the services of alternatives.
“The plan is to develop, maybe increase some team,” Cleverly claimed. “The large issue is I want folks to know Jackson’s is not heading everywhere. We’re just growing into yet another line of business. We’ll all be running under a single roof”