Leo Burke Furniture Closing after 54 Years

May 30, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on May 31, 2012 from http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2012/may/30/leo-burke-furniture-store-closing-ar-1952595/

Jack Burke has taken lots of risks over the years with his family-owned furniture store business in Richmond, Va.

Now, he's taking the biggest gamble ever: shutting down the Leo Burke Furniture store in Carytown that his father started in 1958.

"It just makes more sense to go out now while we are on top rather than keep pressing on," Burke said Wednesday. "There was no big epiphany. We have run a good business for 54 years. This is a business decision like any other we would have to make."

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