Business feed
Local news e-mail
Oxford Press mobile
Home
>
News
>
Business
CINCINNATI PREMIUM OUTLETS
Gary Stelzer/Staff photographer
Riley Griffiths, owner of Riley's Furniture Gallery, stands next to a wall of Howard Miller clocks inside the Monroe, Ohio store Monday, July 27, 2009. Griffiths plans to open an outlet center at the new Cincinnati Mills outlet mall, selling the clocks, and other items, at a discount.
Riley’s Furniture to open at new outlet mall
Store will open Aug. 6 and focus on specialty, clearance products.
Hot Topics
Related
By Denise Wilson,
Staff Writer
Updated 12:59 PM Wednesday, July 29, 2009
MONROE — The owner of Riley’s Furniture Gallery on Breaden Drive in Monroe is embarking on a new “adventure.”
Riley Griffiths is opening a furniture outlet store on Aug. 6 inside the new Cincinnati Premium Outlets near Ohio 63 in Monroe. The outlet center will include about 100 upscale stores and is celebrating its grand opening Aug. 6-9.
The 1,400-square-foot Riley’s Furniture Outlet will feature specialty items such as Howard Miller and Ty Pennington wall and floor clocks — that will be shipped to shoppers’ homes for free — and Stressless Recliners by Ekornes, he said.
“It’s going to be more of a specialty store and then we’ll use it as an outlet to clear certain odds and ends from the main showroom,” Griffiths said.
“But it’s a whole new adventure that we’re trying to come up with a concept to sell in these outlet malls and we’ve been talking to the Philly mall and talking to Chicago. If we can come up with a concept that works, we might take it to these other malls, “ he said.
“We’re sort of experimenting.”
Griffiths said another reason he decided to open the outlet store is to help boost the economy.
“The main thing we’re trying to do in this economy is create jobs for people, and I think it’s the best thing you can do.”
He said he plans to hire a minimum of seven part-time and full-time employees at his store.
In the meantime, Griffiths said he is currently remodeling the second floor of his 30,000-square-foot full-line furniture store at 150 Breaden Drive.
“We torn out all the walls and we’re putting in new lighting, new flooring and we’re really going to make it look really nice,” he said.
“Then we’re doing the outside of the building this summer. It’s going to need a whole new face lift like new signage, new logos and new texturing.”
Griffiths said he hopes to complete the exterior work on his building by this fall.
He said he has been in the Middletown/Monroe area for 40 years and in Monroe facility the last 36 years.
Share this article
Breaking news by e-mail
Start your day with top headlines in your inbox and get breaking news e-mail alerts at any time by subscribing to our Headlines e-mail newsletter.
See Sample | Privacy Policy
Lastest news blog posts
About our ads
About our adsCopyright © Sun May 27 09:03:01 EDT 2012 Oxford Press, Oxford, Ohio, USA.All rights reserved.
By using this site, you accept the terms of our
Visitors Agreement and
Privacy Policy. AdChoices
. You may wish to note our
other business policies.
User comments are not being accepted on this article.