{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"UC buys old Faulkner and Taylor Furniture Store building &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jrYSoJitWW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/uc-buys-old-faulkner-taylor-furniture-store-building\/\">UC buys old Faulkner and Taylor Furniture Store building<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/uc-buys-old-faulkner-taylor-furniture-store-building\/embed\/#?secret=jrYSoJitWW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;UC buys old Faulkner and Taylor Furniture Store building&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"jrYSoJitWW\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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The University of the Cumberlands purchased the old Faulkner and Taylor Furniture Store building on Dec. 22 for $275,000, according to a deed filed in the Whitley County Clerk\u2019s Office. Faulkner and Taylor operated for 75 years before closing last February. \u201cHopefully it is an attempt to help bring business back downtown,\u201d noted University of the Cumberlands President Dr. Larry Cockrum. He said that the university has a broad outline for what it hopes to do with the space but a lot of the specific details haven\u2019t been worked out yet. \u201cThe upstairs portion of it is going to be apartments for graduate students. In the downstairs we hope to do retail and hope to put a restaurant down in one part of it,\u201d Cockrum said. \u201cReally I can\u2019t tell you what retail is going in there yet. We have a lot of construction ahead of us before we get to that point.\u201d Cockrum said that he has had some preliminary discussions with one person about the restaurant space, but it is too early to tell whether that will come to fruition. Construction will probably start on the apartments this summer with construction on the retail space below it coming later. \u201cWhat we hope to do with the retail down below is something similar to what Stanford, Kentucky, has done to make some niche type stores. I am not really sure what is going to happen there yet,\u201d he added. Cockrum said that most of the retail space will be leased out, but the university will run some of it. Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison said that he has been working with the university to help with the project. \u201cWe have been kind of working with each other trying to figure out who we can get in the retail spaces and the restaurant. We have certain things that are really looking up,\u201d Harrison noted. \u201cI think you are going to see a lot of things happen as far as downtown goes. This is one of those things that have kind of jumpstarted it. We can\u2019t say for sure who or what yet, but I am really excited.\u201d He noted that UC will be spending a lot of money fixing up both the upstairs apartments and the downtown retail space so businesses can be recruited. Harrison said that he has been working on a place for the apartments to have a set aside amount of parking and has bid on one spot to put in additional parking. \u201cThat was one of the things kind of holding back the deal. If they are going to have 28 to 30 apartments, they need a place to park the people. We have those details worked out and we are going to be moving forward on it,\u201d he added."}