Wickes Furniture Co., an Illinois-based chain of furniture retailers, will add two stores to its Willamette Valley lineup.


The company has agreed to lease a to-be-built 42,500-square-foot retail space at the Cornell Sunset Center in Beaverton. It has also secured a similarly sized spot in the Keizer-Salem area in a retail center anchored by Target and other prominent retailers, said, Michael Heerman, a broker with HSM Pacific Realty Inc. who represents Wickes.

The new store in Beaverton is near a Dania furniture store and fronts Highway 26.

Heerman said the chain is aggressively expanding in the Northwest and will use the new Kaiser and Beaverton stores to show off its new store prototype.

Wickes currently operates a distribution center in Northwest Portland and has local stores in Tigard, Delta Park and Clackamas.

George Macoubray of Commercial Realty Advisors represented Wickes new Beaverton landlord, Cornell Sunset Investors, in the lease transaction.