{"id":4773,"date":"2014-08-31T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T04:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/08\/31\/mecklenburg-furniture-closes-its-doors\/"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T04:58:42","slug":"mecklenburg-furniture-closes-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/mecklenburg-furniture-closes-its-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecklenburg Furniture closes its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FURNITURE<br \/>\nOne of Charlotte&#8217;s oldest stores, Mecklenburg Furniture Co. on Providence Road, has closed. The store closed Monday, owner Melvin Vanderburg said Wednesday. He said he could not afford to operate it because of a big increase in rent.Vanderburg said he bought Mecklenburg Furniture 17 years ago.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nThe store opened in December 1940, and was known as Mecklenburg Furniture Shops back then. It moved from Tryon Street to Providence Road in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderburg, who runs privately held K-Town Furniture Inc., also has closed furniture stores in Concord and Salisbury. He said he is concentrating on his Kannapolis furniture store operations around Cannon Village.  &#8212; adam bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FURNITURE One of Charlotte&#8217;s oldest stores, Mecklenburg Furniture Co. on Providence Road, has closed. The store closed Monday, owner Melvin Vanderburg said Wednesday. He said he could not afford to operate it because of a big increase in rent.Vanderburg said he bought Mecklenburg Furniture 17 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}