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Third home for furniture store taking shape By Scott Armstrong ~ Guardian Business Editor ~ scott@nasguard.com: In case you haven't heard the latest gossip or the sounds of hammering and sawing, there's some construction going on over in Marsh Harbour. Abaconians are feeling the excitement as Furniture Plus, The Bahamas' premier furniture retailer, prepares to open its "beautiful third home" this spring. The new 20,000 square foot facility next to Maxwell's Grocery Store will offer the same full product lineup as the company's Nassau and Grand Bahama stores, but with additional items carefully selected for the Abaco market. "Our Abaco store will be a showcase brimming with gorgeous living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, entertainment centers, timeless accessories, dependable Kenmore appliances, the latest JVC electronics, plus so, so much more," said Krystynia Lee d'Arville, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Furniture Plus. Furniture Plus began life in their store headquarters in Nassau in 1988 and expanded to their second store in Grand Bahama in 1997. However, they believe that their national retail chain can better serve the community by expanding to Abaco, the third largest population in The Bahamas. "It just makes sense," said Troy T. d'Arville, President and CEO of the Plus Group of Companies, the parent organization of Furniture Plus. "After all, we spent much of 2009 encouraging Bahamians to build their local economies by 'shopping at home' in our island nation. Now we are hoping to make that process even easier and more convenient with an extensive variety of products and in-house financing right here in Abaco. There's simply no need to travel anyplace else." "We have worked very hard to cultivate a corporate environment that celebrates individuals, helping them to develop and achieve," said d'Arville. "Our employees and our citizens matter, period. So taking this philosophy to Abaco, adding to their economy, embracing their community, contributing to their charities, and building their employment rolls is our small way of giving back." It's this type of forward thinking that helped Furniture Plus earn the distinction of Outstanding Business of the Year by The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce last year. Friday February 05, 2010