Cuyler Meade / Craig Press
Home furniture Link is not new in town, but it is new to downtown.
Derek Cleverly, operator of Jackson’s Business Offer, is now also the new proprietor of Home furniture Relationship, and is moving the latter into his downtown site from its old shopping mall area.
“Office provides is the initial business — we added a Radio Shack franchise, we nonetheless have that,” Cleverly said. “(We) procured The Print Shop from the newspaper a several a long time back. And we’re nevertheless working these all complete-time, just adding the Home furniture Relationship element.”
Cleverly said the opportunity just created perception.
“It suits for us due to the fact as we’ve progressed, and as Craig has progressed, the character of the small business is we wanted a thing else to provide extra men and women to our retail outlet,” Cleverly said. “We saw a need for the reason that home furnishings choices in Craig are constrained.”
The showroom flooring just west of Yampa Avenue on West Victory Way is by now decked out with couches and beds, as signals saying the new venture’s coming are noticed from the road.
“The ideas are to offer you a entire line of home household furniture,” Cleverly said. “We’ve obtained mattresses, bed room furniture, residing home — really do not have eating space sets however, but we’ll have them, much too. The full will work.”
There is plenty to master, but it appears doable to Cleverly.
“There’s merchandise abilities to study fabrics, coverings, items like that,” he explained.
The front finish of the showroom, experiencing the avenue, is now all home furniture, even though the back half of the keep is business office materials and electronics. The total making, which contains other enterprises, is about 5,200 square ft.
“We’ve got area in the setting up we’re producing,” Cleverly mentioned. “We’re growing into that footprint.”
For now, the existing personnel is retraining to learn the furnishings organization, but that could give way to some selecting options.
“The idea is to improve, perhaps include some employees,” Cleverly stated. “The significant detail is I want people today to know Jackson’s is not going any where. We’re just growing into one more line of organization. We’ll all be operating beneath 1 roof”