Habitat ReStore moving
Woodstock Furniture & Mattress Outlet will fill its space in Central Plaza, as ReStore moves near Rome High School.
While Rome’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 10 Central Plaza, is gearing up for a move across town, executives with Woodstock Furniture & Mattress Outlet are making plans to renovate the property and an adjacent space in Central Plaza for their new store.
The ReStore is having a big pre-holiday moving sale and plans to close at the end of business Dec. 23. Habitat Executive Director Bruce Day said Friday that volunteers are needed to help move remaining merchandise to the new location at 95 Three Rivers Drive, across from Rome High School.
Most of the physical moving will take place between Dec. 29-31 and Jan. 4-7. Day said plans are for the new location to open Jan. 8.
Day said the ReStore will continue to accept donations at the Central Plaza location through Dec. 31.
The site on Three Rivers Drive was formerly occupied by Action Rent All, which recently relocated to Callahan Street in North Rome.
Woodstock Furniture Vice President Brian Aaron said his company plans to immediately begin a renovation of the store, along with the adjacent space formerly occupied by Rome Health Spa.
Renovations will begin almost immediately after the ReStore moves out, he added, and the hope is to open sometime in March.
Craig McDaniel, an agent with Toles, Temple & Wright real estate, said Woodstock Furniture first came to Rome about a year ago and started looking at various properties.
“They decided the timing was not right,” McDaniel said.
He said the Aaron family contacted him again about four
months ago and told him they had decided Rome was the right spot for their next location. It wasn’t long before they locked in on the Central Plaza site.
The ReStore property includes approximately 17,000 square feet and the adjacent slot will bring the total square footage up to a little more than 21,000 square feet.
“It will be one of our smallest stores, but we’re going to put a lot into it,” Aaron said. “It will be a full-line furniture and mattress store.”
The company currently has stores in Canton, Dallas and Acworth.
“A lot of our employees are going to be from Rome,” Aaron said.
Angie Dickens, Gail Poole and Janice Winterboer have all been
‘It will be one of our smallest stores, but we’re going to put a lot into it. It will be a full-line furniture and mattress store.’ Brian Aaron Woodstock Furniture vice president
hired and Aaron said he’s interviewed several others.
Poole is the former owner of Impact Furniture, while Dickens managed the Riddle and Associates office furnishings on Second Avenue. Winterboer had her own shop, Twigs, on Broad Street.
Aaron said the demographics of the Rome market are a perfect fit for their typical store.