Ashley Furniture will go into a vacant 43,000sf space next to Burlington Coat Factory in Visalia confirms franchise owner Sam Tran. “We don’t yet have an opening date.” says Tran who has been looking for space in town for several months for the popular retailer.The location on Mooney Blvd fills the former Homebase building next to Walmart says property manager Clyde Barbeau. “They will be doing a new storefront on the building” he says. Ashley Furniture HomeStore is a chain of both corporate and independently owned and operated furniture stores that first opened in 1997 and sell Ashley Furniture products exclusively. It is the nation’s fastest growing chain of furniture stores with some 480 Ashley Furniture HomeStore locations operating worldwide.Tran has franchised locations already in Bakersfield and Fresno.
