Ashley Furniture coming to Clarksville
By JIMMY SETTLE

The nationwide Ashley Furniture chain is planning to build a 42,000-square-foot store and warehouse near Exit 4 of Interstate 24, across from Cracker Barrel restaurant.


A Sam’s Wholesale Club is already located in that vicinity, and a Hilton Garden Inn hotel is coming to that area of the city next summer.

Jim Spencer, of Tupelo, Miss.-based Spencer Enterprises, Inc., a licensee for Ashley Furniture, told The Leaf-Chronicle he looks forward to expanding into the Clarksville market with the first Ashley store. The $6 million store is expected to open for business in February 2015.

“It’ll be an Ashley Furniture Home Store,” Spencer said, “and we’re excited about entering the Clarksville market, because we feel it is a good demographic fit for the company.”

For more on the story, see tomorrow’s edition of The Leaf-Chronicle.