After 68 years, time for a change.Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran 3/10/05): The third-generation owners of Brenner's Furniture in Eugene are David and Jack Fendrich. Jack Fendrich was misidentified in a Wednesday story on Page E5 about Brenner's pending expansion to an outlet on Gateway Street in Springfield. SPRINGFIELD - Don't accuse ac·cuse v. ac·cused, ac·cus·ing, ac·cus·es v.tr. 1. To charge with a shortcoming or error. 2. To charge formally with a wrongdoing. v.intr. the folks at Brenner's Furniture of taking change lightly. For the first time in three generations of continuous family ownership, Brenner's has announced an expansion beyond its downtown Eugene store, at 151 W. Eighth Ave AVE Avenue AVE Average AVE Alta Velocidad Espanola (train between Madrid and Seville) AVE Alta Velocidad Española (Spanish: High Speed Train) AVE Audio Video Entertainment AVE Advertising Value Equivalent . The furniture retailer will open its first satellite outlet in June in Springfield's busy Gateway area. "We kind of feel that after 68 years, it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a ," said David Fendrich, Brenner's third-generation owner along with his brother, Jeff. "Everyone else is expanding, so why can't we?" Brenner's Home Express, focusing on bedding and quality home furnishings furnishings the extra type or quantity of hair on the head, tail, ears or legs, specified for a particular breed. For example, the feathers in setters, the beard in Bearded collies, the eyebrows in Schnauzers. , will be the second tenant in the new Crossroads Center This page is about a shopping mall in Minnesota. For other malls named Crossroads, see Crossroads Mall. For the rehabilitation center, see Crossroads Centre. Crossroads Center, is a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. , at 3306 Gateway St. Best Buy, a big-box electronics retailer, will open Friday in the building it will share with Brenner's. The retail center is being built by a partnership headed by Springfield developer Richard Boyles Richard Boyle may be:
tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. to make way for the retail project. "This is the best location we could have possibly asked for," Jeff Fendrich said Tuesday. "It's near I-5, in the busy Gateway area and with a new hospital opening up (at PeaceHealth's nearby RiverBend site)." "This is our first venture outside of our main store," he said. "We've talked about expanding to other markets. But this location came up and we felt it was the perfect setting for what we wanted to do." Its owners expect the 6,000-square-foot Brenner's Home Express store to eventually do nearly as much business as the company's 45,000-square-foot store in downtown Eugene. The new store will become Brenner's main outlet for mattresses and bedding, and will carry other furnishings that can be bought in large quantities and delivered to cus- tomers within a couple of weeks after being sold. "There's going to be selected merchandise that we feel is kind of the best of the best that our main store has to offer," Jeff Fendrich said. Brenner's portion of the Gateway building is currently a "concrete shell," David Fendrich said, but the company plans to spend $150,000 to $200,000 on interior improvements and exterior signs before opening in mid-June. The Fendrich brothers are expecting the store's easy-to-reach location and proximity to Best Buy to provide an immediate boost to business. "That (electronics store) is not just a local draw, but a regional draw that's going on there," David Fendrich said. |
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