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The High Point Market's relationship to downtown High Point is the focus of the book "Showroom City" by urban sociologist John Joe Schlichtman. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Describing its ability to capture the global furniture merchandising market, Schlichtman describes High Point as a "niche city" or "a city that forges global centrality by creating an ...
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]
Nov. 30—HIGH POINT — Italian furniture company Natuzzi has offered its showroom for sale but says it plans to remain an exhibitor at High Point Market. The showroom, in the design of a ship at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Starting with the Spring 2011 High Point Furniture Market, Thomasville Furniture Industries moved its showroom space from Thomasville to the International Home Furnishings Center. [4] The five-story 225,000-square-foot former headquarters building, which was built in 1958 on East Main Street in Thomasville and also housed Drexel Heritage , was ...
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