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The High Point Market has been noted for being a significant part of the region's furniture business cluster, which was discussed by urbanist Richard Florida [10] and initially by economist Michael Porter. [11] The High Point Market's relationship to downtown High Point is the focus of the book "Showroom City" by urban sociologist John Joe ...
In July 1981, a group of businessmen bought [12] the 650,000-square-foot [7] complex, with plans to turn it into a furniture showroom building. [12] Market Square opened for the Spring 1982 Furniture Market. Jake Froelich, one of the owners, hoped furniture manufacturers would move their showrooms to the city. [13]
Lambeth Furniture began in 1901 and was sold to Knox Furniture in 1928 and Thomasville Chair in 1932. [1] B.F. Huntley Furniture began in 1906 on Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and grew into the largest bedroom and dining room furniture manufacturer in the country. Its Winston-Salem plant burned in 1956, though a two-story ...
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Feb. 25—HIGH POINT — Office furniture-maker Haworth has closed its longtime seating manufacturing facility in High Point. Julie Smith, spokeswoman for the Holland, Michigan-based company, said ...
As of 2005, according to the Convention and Visitors Bureau, 200,000 people came to High Point each year to buy furniture, from locations as far away as Chicago. The High Point Market has many locations in downtown High Point, but they are not open to consumers. People coming to High Point to shop for furniture have a difficult time finding a ...
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Meanwhile, the High Point Market continued to set furniture trends and to be a national economic indicator; the $5 billion in sales in 1947 after World War II forecast a postwar boom. [28] The 1950s' growth of the furniture market mirrored that of High Point's second population boom from 39,973 in 1950 to 62,063 in 1960. [27]