Vacated Borders Wynnewood to Re-Open as Furniture Outlet

The former in the Wynnewood Shopping Center, which after the national chain liquidized in the wake of bankruptcy, will be open again for business within days as a furniture outlet called Affordable Home Furnishings.

“We’re not ready to open yet, but we’re going to do the best we can,” said owner and operator Barney Daley, a veteran of the furniture business in the tri-state area, during a phone interview with Patch Thursday evening.

Due to lease requirements with (NYSE: FRT), the Rockville, Md.-based owner of the shopping center, the store must be open within days of occupying the space, Daley said, “but it’s going to take us about a month to get the whole thing going. It’s a big place.”

At more than 26,000 square feet over two floors, he’s not kidding. But Daley, 70, is an old pro at filling large retail spaces with tables, ottomans and leather wingbacks—he started in the business with his father almost 60 years ago, when he was 13. Currently, he has locations in Norristown and one in Voorhees, N.J. (Affordable Consignment Furniture) that’s about 50,000 square feet.

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