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PALM DESERT, CA-Ashley Furniture has acquired four acres for a50,000-sf store at the Desert Gateway shopping center here, andWickes has purchased land in Victorville for a new 37,000-sf storeas furniture retailers continue their expansion in the InlandEmpire. According to the Hodgdon Group of San Bernardino, Ashleybought its parcel from Los Angeles-based Rothbart Development.

The Hodgdon Group, which negotiated the land sale andcoordinated the entitlements for the new Ashley store, also will bethe construction manager for the project. The new Ashley FurnitureHomeStore is projected to open in the fall of 2007.

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