Acme TV Home & Office plans to reopen its furniture outlet store, ReSkued, in a new building to be constructed at 1722 E. Riverside, in Spokane’s Sprague Union District.

ReSkued has been closed since May 2021, after operating as a clearance and consignment store for Acme’s flagship furniture store, The Tin Roof, for about 10 years.

Heather Hanley, who owns the 77-year-old Acme company with her parents, Jim and Sue Hanley, says ReSkued became too much to handle after the company opened a smaller furniture store, Bide & Burgeon, across Sprague Avenue from The Tin Roof in October of 2020.

“We closed it because we were having trouble keeping it full,” she says. “It was a lot of work to fill it back up.”

With plans to build a new storage warehouse, the Hanleys decided to incorporate ReSkued back into the company’s operations.

Jim Hanley says ReSkued will be located in a 16,000-square-foot warehouse to be constructed just north of Tin Roof. About 3,000 square feet of space on the Riverside Avenue side of the new building will be occupied by ReSkued, while the rest will be used as storage for The Tin Roof and Bide & Burgeon.

He says he hopes ReSkued will be open by the end of the year.

The estimated value of the warehouse and ReSkued project is $600,000, according to preliminary planning information on file with the city of Spokane. An old building will have to be demolished at the site before construction can begin.

Jim Hanley says that he is still seeking an architect for the project. The preliminary planning information on file with the city doesn’t list a contractor for the project.

Heather Hanley says the original concept of ReSkued will be changed.

“I wanted it to be cute and fun and boutique-y,” she says. “The new version is not going to be any of those things. It is going to be lined up furniture.”

The new version also won’t include consignment services.

“It’s just a totally different business model,” she says.

Much of the store’s types of offerings will remain the same, however.

“It’s ding and dent. It’s customer returns, or maybe we ordered the wrong fabric or the wrong chair,” she says. “That’s what would be offered at that ReSkued location.”

Jim Hanley says that it’s also important to keep their showrooms at The Tin Roof and Bide & Burgeon clean.

“Especially a high-end retail store like this, you don’t want to mix in damaged products and stuff that you’re recycling,” he says.

ReSkued will also sell pieces of furniture that have been discontinued by manufacturers, he says.

He adds that manufacturing has changed in recent years, and many manufacturers are quicker to discontinue items that don’t sell at fast rates.

Heather Hanley says that the discounts at ReSkued will be anywhere from 20% to 90% off the original price of items, depending on the reason it is being sold there.

Furniture from The Tin Roof is considered more upscale and customizable, with higher price points than at Bide & Burgeon, which has more “grab-and-go” options, she says.

She says she doesn’t expect to hire additional employees to work at ReSkued, as her service manager likely will handle its operations. The Tin Roof and Bide & Burgeon have 25 to 30 employees combined.

Although he hopes to have it done by the end of the year, Jim Hanley says the date of completion is uncertain because of a variety of new regulations that he has to meet for the planned building.

The Tin Roof is located at 1727 E. Sprague and Bide & Burgeon is located at 1730 E. Sprague. Both showrooms are open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

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