A Haverty's

furniture store is expected to fill the vacant Roberds building on Ga.

Highway 85 sometime in early 2002.

An architect

representing Haverty's appeared before the Fayetteville Planning and Zoning

Commission Tuesday night, saying that an application had been filed for

some changes to the front elevation of the site and a change in site lighting

as well.

He said after

his presentation that Haverty's plans to open around Feb. 1.

The Roberds

department store chain filed for bankruptcy early last year and announced

that all of its stores were closing, including nine in the metro Atlanta

area. One of those was on Ga. Highway 85 between Banks Road and Fayette

Pavilion.

After a liquidation

sale conducted by a separate company under orders from the bankruptcy

court, the building was vacated in mid-September last year.

Some minor

changes to the front of the building have been suggested. The project

was actually a discussion item on the P&Z agenda, but it should come

up again within a month or two.

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