New life at Sharp’s Furniture site
Sharp’s Furniture closed in August after a lengthy run, but its location will be a shopping destination again.
“There will be a strip center with a couple of national tenants,” said Summer Ewing of Win Development, which will develop the property on Route 19 in South Strabane Township below the Trinity Point complex.
She declined to provide further details Wednesday afternoon, saying the firm is preparing site plans that will be submitted to the township, tentatively, in mid-November. If plans are approved, she said, more information may be forthcoming around the holiday season.
Ewing said the center hasn’t been named, and that the project is known as MF Washington LLC.
MF Washington purchased the 3.59-acre property for $2,650,000, according to a deed recorded Sept. 15 in the Washington County Recorder of Deeds office. Owen C. Ewing – Summer’s father – was listed as the operations manager of MF Washington. Belleair Beach, on Florida’s Gulf Coast, was identified as his base of operation.
The Pittsburgh office of CBRE Group is handling leasing, and has placed a sign on the property. Bob Gold and Jason Cannon are the leasing agents.
Summer Ewing, a member of Win’s site selection team, is pleased with the transaction. “We are the proud owners of the former Sharp’s location.”
For three generations and nearly a century, the Sharp family operated the furniture store known for its elegant pieces.
Charles L. Sharp started the business in 1917, on West Chestnut Street in downtown Washington across from Immaculate Conception Church. At the time, it was one of five family-owned furniture stores on West Chestnut.
He and a brother, Boyd, built a bigger store downtown in 1925, and the business remained there until 1969 when the family moved it to South Strabane. Sibyl Sharp Ream and her husband, Dave, ran the business for the past 12 years before selling it over the summer.