High Point’s Atrium Converting to Showroom Space

August 13, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in High Point on August 2006 The 250,000-square-foot Atrium Furniture Mall in High Point will convert from retail to a wholesale furniture showroom, The Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer reported.

Building owner Ikerd Enterprises of Hickory, N.C., has appointed John Schenk, former president of the Hickory Furniture Mart, to lead the conversion.

The four-level Atrium, located at 430 S. Main St. in High Point, was built in the 1980s for use as a wholesale exhibition space. The structure was expanded in the early 1990s to its current size and for 18 years operated as a retail home furnishings complex.

Ikerd Enterprises also owns and operates Catawba Furniture Mall and the Park Inn Gateway Conference Center and hotel, both in Hickory.