Ground Breaking Ceremony Planned For The Home Design Emporium at New Garden Village

Furniture World Magazine

The Home Design Emporium, at New Garden Village, will have a ground breaking ceremony on Thursday, July 1, 2004, at 9:00 am on Garden Village Way off Old Oak Ridge Road in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Home Design Emporium, is a joint project by two of Greensboro’s most respected builders – Martha Faw, President of Southern Structures, Inc. and Kurt Ryback, President of Ryback Construction Company, Inc. With over 30 years experience in home and commercial design, engineering and construction, Faw and Ryback are distinctively qualified to make the Home Design Emporium a key component in establishing New Garden Village as the Southeast’s premier home renaissance destination. The Emporium will be home to a vast array of shops, showrooms, manufacturers’ displays, home product kiosks, architectural/design studios and offices. ”What we are trying to create is “one-stop shopping” for consumers, interior designers, architects and builders,” says Faw. “If anyone is remodeling or building a home, or they are looking for new ideas in decorating, they will be able to find all the products they need at the Home Design Emporium. It’s a brand new concept for this area…there is nothing else like it!” The Home Design Emporium will consist of five buildings that resemble homes in prominent communities of the Triad: Buena Vista Hacienda, Blandwood Manor House, Salem Carriage House, Emerywood Country House and the Irving Park Estate Building. “It was important to us to create a home environment both inside and outside of the buildings. It gives us the opportunity to showcase the beauty and architecture of homes right here in Greensboro, Winston Salem and High Point,” says Faw. The first phase of The Home Design Emporium is scheduled to open in early fall. Tenants thus far, include: Imagine Tile, Closet Genie, and a Design Consortium that will feature furniture, antiques, home accessories, lighting, architectural elements, art, and other design elements from local tenants such as Rhyne’s Antiques as well as others from across the state that will help consumers visualize these products in their own home. The Home Design Emporium is an integral part of New Garden Village, which is located off of Old Oak Ridge Road in Greensboro. “It’s proximity to Painter Boulevard will make New Garden Village directly accessible from I-40 and I-85, future I-73, Bryan Boulevard, and NC Highway 68,” explains Robert Hayter of the Hayter Firm in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Hayter, is the master planner of New Garden Village, and has also designed similar “village concepts” in both, Pinehurst, North Carolina, and Williamsburg, Virginia. “The location of New Garden Village will be an easy drive from anywhere within 100 miles of Greensboro, says Hayter, it will certainly be a destination point!” New Garden Village also is home to New Garden Nursery, New Garden Landscape and Maintenance as well as an Outdoor Living Area which includes Pine Hall Brick, Archadeck of the Triad, Living Waterscapes, Creative Pools by David Meredith, New Garden Lighting and Irrigation, Dutch Barns Inc, Southern Expozures, Wild Birds Unlimited, Fence Builders, and Scott Stone. “This will be the first development in our part of the country – and one of the few in the U.S. that has this scale and diversity of distinct businesses all serving the home renaissance and outdoor living market sectors,” Newlin said. Morris Newlin, a principal development partner for New Garden Village, believes, “Consumers from Raleigh to Charlotte and from Roanoke to Pinehurst will drive the distance for products, ideas and expertise they need to keep their homes and landscapes comfortable and in-step with their lifestyles.” For more information on the Home Design Emporium contact: Martha Faw, 336-292-6774 Carol McCreedy, 336-339-4709 www.homedesignemporium.com