Once again, Johnson City Tennessee's Science Hill High School Band is performing in the Rose Bowl Parade! Thanks to Tom Stites, Science Hill's acclaimed Band Director and Instructor, TN's Science Hill School Band has once again achieved national recognition.
Stites has achieved a record that few high school band leaders attain, graduating almost 100% of his band members over the years. He is known for 'training musicians and performers' rather than merely marching band members. Johnson City, Tennessee, the Tri-Cities Tennessee area, and A Buyer's Best Choice Realty congratulate Tom Stites on his outstanding record and his many years at Science Hill High School!
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Johnson City, TN has 2 of only 13 FREE EMBARQ phones nationally for homeless
Johnson City, TN has 2 pay phones of 13 in the United States to have free 10 minute calls offered by Embarq to families at homeless shelters…… the Salvation Army Center of Hope and the Johnson City Housing Authority, according to Sue Guinn Legg, writer for the Johnson City Press. The phones are available for homeless shelter residents to call their families or friends throughout the U.S. Johnson City (and Jonesborough TN, which is the "Oldest City in Tennessee) are located in the Tri-Cities Metro Area of Northeast TN (Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN/VA)
“Johnson City (TN) was the only city in Tennessee and one of only two cities in the Southern Appalachian region included for free service,” according to Legg. The calls began at 8:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve and will continue until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, the 28th of December.
The 11 other shelter sites are in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
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“Johnson City (TN) was the only city in Tennessee and one of only two cities in the Southern Appalachian region included for free service,” according to Legg. The calls began at 8:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve and will continue until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, the 28th of December.
The 11 other shelter sites are in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
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Counties in NE Tennessee, Washington and Sullivan,Tennessee’s lowest unemployment rates in November, 2008
Two Counties in NE Tennessee, Washington and Sullivan, had two of Tennessee’s lowest unemployment rates in November, 2008. And the Tri-Cities TN rate was the lowest of all Tennessee large metro areas, according to staff reports in the Johnson City Press. “The Tri-Cities’ 5.9 percent rate was a full percentage point below the state average.” The TN state average in November was 6.9 percent.
Washington and Sullivan Counties of NE Tennessee include the Tri-Cities’ largest towns, Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, as well as the smaller communities of Gray, Jonesborough, Piney Flats, Blountville, Bluff City, Colonial Heights, to name a few.
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Washington and Sullivan Counties of NE Tennessee include the Tri-Cities’ largest towns, Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, as well as the smaller communities of Gray, Jonesborough, Piney Flats, Blountville, Bluff City, Colonial Heights, to name a few.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Jobless Rates Down In October
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As of The End of November, Wednesday's October unadjusted employment data was another positive economic story for NE Tenn. cities and counties.
The data show unemployment dropping or staying the same in most of the cities and counties. The only exceptions were 0.2% increases in Unicoi and Hawkins counties and the city of Bristol unemployment rates.
In the cities category the biggest unemployment drops came in Johnson City and Bristol at 0.4% below the Sept. total. Kingsport's unemployment rate dropped 0.3% and Morristown stayed the same as the Sept. rate at 10.7%, which is the highest unemployment rate in the NE Tenn. cities category.
Looking at the data for the number of jobs shows Johnson City as the region's leader with 30,420 jobs. Kingsport ranks No. 2 with 17,940 jobs and Bristol barley edges out Morristown with 11,890 jobs.
Among the counties Sullivan continues as the county with the most jobs - 70,570. Washington County is second with 58,310 jobs.
October's unadjusted jobless data follows a bleak seasonally adjusted third quarter job report that show the regional losing 2,300 jobs.
CLICK HERE for that report.
In that report from ETSU economists Steb Hipple the Tri-Cities metro area lost 2,341 jobs in the third quarter v. the same time last year. Job losses were reported in professional and business services, government durable and nondurable manufacturing leisure and hospitality, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and utilities and other services.
According to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Tennessee's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2008 was 7.0 percent, 0.2 percentage point lower than the September rate of 7.2 percent. The United States unemployment rate for the month of October was 6.5 percent.
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for October 2008, show that 53 counties decreased. The rate increased in 27 counties and remained the same in 15 counties.
Williamson County registered the state's lowest county unemployment rate at 4.7 percent, down 0.3 percentage point from the September rate. Perry County had the state's highest at 17.4 percent, up from 16.7 in September, followed by Lauderdale County at 14.5 percent, up from 13.1 percent in September.
Knox County had the state's lowest major metropolitan rate at 5.0 percent, down 0.3 percentage point from the September rate. Davidson County was 5.5 percent, down from 5.8 the previous month. Hamilton County was at 6.1 percent the same as the September rate, and Shelby County was 7.1 percent, down from the September rate of 7.4.
Original Article By: Don Fenley
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As of The End of November, Wednesday's October unadjusted employment data was another positive economic story for NE Tenn. cities and counties.
The data show unemployment dropping or staying the same in most of the cities and counties. The only exceptions were 0.2% increases in Unicoi and Hawkins counties and the city of Bristol unemployment rates.
In the cities category the biggest unemployment drops came in Johnson City and Bristol at 0.4% below the Sept. total. Kingsport's unemployment rate dropped 0.3% and Morristown stayed the same as the Sept. rate at 10.7%, which is the highest unemployment rate in the NE Tenn. cities category.
Looking at the data for the number of jobs shows Johnson City as the region's leader with 30,420 jobs. Kingsport ranks No. 2 with 17,940 jobs and Bristol barley edges out Morristown with 11,890 jobs.
Among the counties Sullivan continues as the county with the most jobs - 70,570. Washington County is second with 58,310 jobs.
October's unadjusted jobless data follows a bleak seasonally adjusted third quarter job report that show the regional losing 2,300 jobs.
CLICK HERE for that report.
In that report from ETSU economists Steb Hipple the Tri-Cities metro area lost 2,341 jobs in the third quarter v. the same time last year. Job losses were reported in professional and business services, government durable and nondurable manufacturing leisure and hospitality, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and utilities and other services.
According to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Tennessee's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2008 was 7.0 percent, 0.2 percentage point lower than the September rate of 7.2 percent. The United States unemployment rate for the month of October was 6.5 percent.
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for October 2008, show that 53 counties decreased. The rate increased in 27 counties and remained the same in 15 counties.
Williamson County registered the state's lowest county unemployment rate at 4.7 percent, down 0.3 percentage point from the September rate. Perry County had the state's highest at 17.4 percent, up from 16.7 in September, followed by Lauderdale County at 14.5 percent, up from 13.1 percent in September.
Knox County had the state's lowest major metropolitan rate at 5.0 percent, down 0.3 percentage point from the September rate. Davidson County was 5.5 percent, down from 5.8 the previous month. Hamilton County was at 6.1 percent the same as the September rate, and Shelby County was 7.1 percent, down from the September rate of 7.4.
Original Article By: Don Fenley
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Schools rated in East Tennessee: U.S. News and world reports
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Last week, in a U.S. News and World Report study, several Northeast TN schools were rated among the best in the nation with regard to exceeding their state proficiency benchmarks and for serving all students including those who aren’t college bound.
Based on the study’s findings 2 Hawkins County schools, Volunteer High School in Church Hill and the small K-12 Clinch School in Eidson, would be ranked within the top 10 percent best performing high schools in the nation.
The U.S. News and World Report study analyzed 21,069 public high schools in 48 states using data from the 2006-2007 school year. There wasn’t enough information available from Oklahoma, Nevada or the District of Columbia to be included in the study.
Every school was judged in three parts including how well it served its entire student body, not just students who are college bound. It also judged how well students met or exceeded state proficiency guidelines.
The final part of the study assessed how well schools prepare students for college-level work.
A list of the “gold medal” winners, or the top 100 schools in the nation, was created from the results of the study, with Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., being named number one for the second year in a row.
504 top-performing high schools nationwide earned silver medals after being ranked based on their college readiness index scores.
Tennessee had two silver medal schools including University School in Johnson City and Merrol Hyde Magnet School in Hendersonville.
High schools nationwide that excelled in the first two parts of the study were awarded bronze medals.
Aside from Volunteer and Clinch in Hawkins County, the other bronze medal winners in Northeast Tennessee included Unicoi County, Chucky Doak, North Greene and South Greene. A total of 25 Tennessee high schools were awarded bronze.
Volunteer High School principal Jim Dykes said his school’s bronze medal can largely be attributed to his hard-working staff.
Excerpts FROM: TIMES-NEWS ONLINE http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9009360
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Last week, in a U.S. News and World Report study, several Northeast TN schools were rated among the best in the nation with regard to exceeding their state proficiency benchmarks and for serving all students including those who aren’t college bound.
Based on the study’s findings 2 Hawkins County schools, Volunteer High School in Church Hill and the small K-12 Clinch School in Eidson, would be ranked within the top 10 percent best performing high schools in the nation.
The U.S. News and World Report study analyzed 21,069 public high schools in 48 states using data from the 2006-2007 school year. There wasn’t enough information available from Oklahoma, Nevada or the District of Columbia to be included in the study.
Every school was judged in three parts including how well it served its entire student body, not just students who are college bound. It also judged how well students met or exceeded state proficiency guidelines.
The final part of the study assessed how well schools prepare students for college-level work.
A list of the “gold medal” winners, or the top 100 schools in the nation, was created from the results of the study, with Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., being named number one for the second year in a row.
504 top-performing high schools nationwide earned silver medals after being ranked based on their college readiness index scores.
Tennessee had two silver medal schools including University School in Johnson City and Merrol Hyde Magnet School in Hendersonville.
High schools nationwide that excelled in the first two parts of the study were awarded bronze medals.
Aside from Volunteer and Clinch in Hawkins County, the other bronze medal winners in Northeast Tennessee included Unicoi County, Chucky Doak, North Greene and South Greene. A total of 25 Tennessee high schools were awarded bronze.
Volunteer High School principal Jim Dykes said his school’s bronze medal can largely be attributed to his hard-working staff.
Excerpts FROM: TIMES-NEWS ONLINE http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9009360
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
A Buyer's Best Choice Realty: Johnson City/Tri-Cities TN 'safe haven' article
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Two recent pieces of real estate news may not fit the national profile, and they don’t
mean the area’s housing industry is on easy street, but the reports from Kiplinger’s magazine and a national agency suggest the Tri-Cities market remains somewhat protected from the problems plaguing many areas of the country.
On Saturday, Kiplinger’s, a national financial monthly, tabbed the Johnson City metro area
(Washington, Carter and Unicoi counties) as one of six “Safe Havens in Real Estate.”
And Tuesday — the same day the large metro-related “Case-Shiller Index” showed continued
plunging prices in its markets, another index showed the Kingsport-Bristol metro ranking 14th best out of 291 areas nationwide for year-to-year home price appreciation through Sept. 30 at 3.93 percent. Nationwide, the figures released by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) showed, prices declined by 6.0 percent over the same period.
Kingsport-Bristol’s 14th-place showing was identical to the second-quarter placement,
though year-to-year appreciation was down from 4.75 percent. Johnson City’s latest figure, shown in an index of unranked metros, was 3.63 percent, which would place it 18th, and was an
improvement from the second-quarter gain of 2.86 percent that would have put it 58th.
The OFHEO report also showed data for the July-September quarter compared to the quarter
before, and Kingsport-Bristol remained above water in that regard with a 0.69 percent
appreciation. Six of the top 20 year-to-year markets lost value in the third quarter compared to
the April-June quarter.
The Kiplinger’s article used data from Fiserv Lending Solutions, a home-price research
company, to determine that “in certain pockets across the country, the damage has been minimal. The article lumped Johnson City in with Lancaster, Pa., Clarksville, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque and Burlington, Vt. among cities whose “local economies have kept unemployment and foreclosure rates below average.”
That piece also noted that the cities making the list measured well on the “affordability
index” that measures home prices versus family income.
Kiplinger’s lists Johnson City’s median home price at $120,000, lowest of the cities
shown, but it also puts the 12-month change in home value at negative 0.4 percent. The other
metros all had modest gains. It notes the Johnson City market is driven by East Tennessee State University and new retirees — the so-called “halfbacks” who “used to spend summer in the north and winter in the south but are now making Tennessee their home year round.”
In the OFHEO release, Tennessee also made out well as a state. It saw annual appreciation of 1.38 percent, ranking 11th, though prices showed a drop of 0.68 percent from the second quarter to the third. Several other “Mountain South” metros also placed high on the OFHEO annual appreciation list. They included Greenville, S.C. (9th), Spartanburg, S.C. (11th), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, N.C. (17th) and Asheville, N.C. (43rd). The OFHEO numbers come from sales of existing homes and refinances.
(Excerpts from article at Johnson City Press) (For full article, visit
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Tri-Cities/East Tennessee Region) help you find your place in a beautiful environment!! And, as
the excerpts from the article below show, you should find peace of mind in a safe investment, in a 'safe haven' as well as a GREAT community. You may visit our website at:
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Two recent pieces of real estate news may not fit the national profile, and they don’t
mean the area’s housing industry is on easy street, but the reports from Kiplinger’s magazine and a national agency suggest the Tri-Cities market remains somewhat protected from the problems plaguing many areas of the country.
On Saturday, Kiplinger’s, a national financial monthly, tabbed the Johnson City metro area
(Washington, Carter and Unicoi counties) as one of six “Safe Havens in Real Estate.”
And Tuesday — the same day the large metro-related “Case-Shiller Index” showed continued
plunging prices in its markets, another index showed the Kingsport-Bristol metro ranking 14th best out of 291 areas nationwide for year-to-year home price appreciation through Sept. 30 at 3.93 percent. Nationwide, the figures released by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) showed, prices declined by 6.0 percent over the same period.
Kingsport-Bristol’s 14th-place showing was identical to the second-quarter placement,
though year-to-year appreciation was down from 4.75 percent. Johnson City’s latest figure, shown in an index of unranked metros, was 3.63 percent, which would place it 18th, and was an
improvement from the second-quarter gain of 2.86 percent that would have put it 58th.
The OFHEO report also showed data for the July-September quarter compared to the quarter
before, and Kingsport-Bristol remained above water in that regard with a 0.69 percent
appreciation. Six of the top 20 year-to-year markets lost value in the third quarter compared to
the April-June quarter.
The Kiplinger’s article used data from Fiserv Lending Solutions, a home-price research
company, to determine that “in certain pockets across the country, the damage has been minimal. The article lumped Johnson City in with Lancaster, Pa., Clarksville, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque and Burlington, Vt. among cities whose “local economies have kept unemployment and foreclosure rates below average.”
That piece also noted that the cities making the list measured well on the “affordability
index” that measures home prices versus family income.
Kiplinger’s lists Johnson City’s median home price at $120,000, lowest of the cities
shown, but it also puts the 12-month change in home value at negative 0.4 percent. The other
metros all had modest gains. It notes the Johnson City market is driven by East Tennessee State University and new retirees — the so-called “halfbacks” who “used to spend summer in the north and winter in the south but are now making Tennessee their home year round.”
In the OFHEO release, Tennessee also made out well as a state. It saw annual appreciation of 1.38 percent, ranking 11th, though prices showed a drop of 0.68 percent from the second quarter to the third. Several other “Mountain South” metros also placed high on the OFHEO annual appreciation list. They included Greenville, S.C. (9th), Spartanburg, S.C. (11th), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, N.C. (17th) and Asheville, N.C. (43rd). The OFHEO numbers come from sales of existing homes and refinances.
(Excerpts from article at Johnson City Press) (For full article, visit
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=HOMEPAGE&ID=65933 )
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
East Tennessee: Tipton-Haynes video episode focuses on civilians during the Civil War
One of three episodes on East Tennessee history was being taped Monday at Tipton-Haynes Historic Site by the East Tennessee Historical Society.
The videos will be part of a permanent exhibit titled Voices of the Land — People of East Tennessee that will be housed at the East Tennessee History Center at 601 Gay St., Knoxville.
The segment being filmed here is on the Civil War from the standpoint of civilians, according to Cherel Henderson. The filming will next move to the Dickson-Williams Mansion in Greeneville, focusing on the diary of Rhoda Williams, who opposed the division of the nation although her family owned slaves.
Other diary entries come from Effie Eagleton and Eliza Fain. Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain opposed Union intervention in what she considered the South’s business. “We are asked to submit to this rule ...They should treat us as brethren and let us go,” she wrote.
Williams, while favoring Union, recognized it was a hopeless case. “The Southern people will never come to any terms with Lincoln,” she wrote. “His policy is to crush the South and make us all slaves.”
The first film will be an orientation to the exhibit and the final will be on country music and how traditions were passed from father to son or daughter.
The script, utilizing the diaries, was written by Hillman and Carr from Washington, D.C., the producers of the series. The Johnson City unit is under the hands of producer Jennifer Gruber.
“The Civil War home front is a unique story to East Tennessee, Henderson said. “There was so much bitterness and division between families. The diaries show this agony.”
The taping began with doing exterior shots of the buildings involved. Monday’s session actually involved actors running lines.
Adam Alfrey, curator of the exhibit, said it will cover 8,000 square feet of the old customs house in Knoxville, and will also have a traveling exhibit. The total exhibit will cover from early settlement up to the present, combining artifacts with images. The videos will each run about six minutes.
Unlike most Civil War film re-creations, this one will not involve battles or scenes with uniformed re-enactors, but will focus on the lives of civilians as they try to cope with the hardships and violence that was ripping East Tennessee apart.
By James Brooks
Press Staff Writer
Johnson City Press Chronicle
The videos will be part of a permanent exhibit titled Voices of the Land — People of East Tennessee that will be housed at the East Tennessee History Center at 601 Gay St., Knoxville.
The segment being filmed here is on the Civil War from the standpoint of civilians, according to Cherel Henderson. The filming will next move to the Dickson-Williams Mansion in Greeneville, focusing on the diary of Rhoda Williams, who opposed the division of the nation although her family owned slaves.
Other diary entries come from Effie Eagleton and Eliza Fain. Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain opposed Union intervention in what she considered the South’s business. “We are asked to submit to this rule ...They should treat us as brethren and let us go,” she wrote.
Williams, while favoring Union, recognized it was a hopeless case. “The Southern people will never come to any terms with Lincoln,” she wrote. “His policy is to crush the South and make us all slaves.”
The first film will be an orientation to the exhibit and the final will be on country music and how traditions were passed from father to son or daughter.
The script, utilizing the diaries, was written by Hillman and Carr from Washington, D.C., the producers of the series. The Johnson City unit is under the hands of producer Jennifer Gruber.
“The Civil War home front is a unique story to East Tennessee, Henderson said. “There was so much bitterness and division between families. The diaries show this agony.”
The taping began with doing exterior shots of the buildings involved. Monday’s session actually involved actors running lines.
Adam Alfrey, curator of the exhibit, said it will cover 8,000 square feet of the old customs house in Knoxville, and will also have a traveling exhibit. The total exhibit will cover from early settlement up to the present, combining artifacts with images. The videos will each run about six minutes.
Unlike most Civil War film re-creations, this one will not involve battles or scenes with uniformed re-enactors, but will focus on the lives of civilians as they try to cope with the hardships and violence that was ripping East Tennessee apart.
By James Brooks
Press Staff Writer
Johnson City Press Chronicle
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Johnson City, TN : ANOTHER store coming to N.E. TN/Tri-Cities
Johnson City, TN : ANOTHER store coming to N.E. TN/Tri-Cities
By Jeff Keeling
Press Business Editor
Johnson City Press Chronicle
Natural foods outlet to open State of Franklin location in June.
Johnson City will become home to the Tri-Cities’ first natural foods supermarket later this year when Fletcher, N.C.-based Earth Fare opens for business in a space near East Tennessee State University.
“We’ve been looking at Johnson City for a couple years, actually, and it was just difficult to find a site,” Earth Fare CEO Michael Cianciarulo said Monday. He said the company will put a couple of million dollars into retrofitting the 24,000-square-foot space – currently home to a White’s Fresh Foods – at 1735 W. State of Franklin before opening in June, and eventually hire about 100 employees.
Cianciarulo said Tri-Citians can expect a store that caters to, among others, the vegetarian, health food and epicurean markets, that sources much of its product locally and that is a good employer and corporate citizen.
“We think it’s going to be something that brings a lot of good products and options to the people of the Tri-Cities,” he said.
The origins of Earth Fare lie in “Dinner for the Earth,” a small natural food store that opened in Asheville in 1975, changed its name to Earth Fare in 1993, upsized in 1994 and opened its second store, in Charleston, S.C., in 1997. Today, Earth Fare has 13 stores in four states, with three more under way, but still espouses the values that spawned the first store, at least according to the “Mission and Values” section of the company’s Web site:
“We support the empowerment, development and wellness of our customers and staff by operating a successful business focused on education, fair trade, organic and local foods, and other healthy choices for the environment and ourselves.”
Earth Fare’s pending arrival means the 24,000-square-foot anchor of the University Plaza strip center won’t sit waiting on a tenant. That was good news Monday to Larry England, who owns a Cartridge World store occupying one of the center’s smaller spaces.
“I was in a different business before this in a strip center and one of our main anchors went dark about a year after we had moved in – it really made a huge impact on our traffic,” England said.
England is excited about the arrival of Earth Fare and expects it to have positive effects on the 20-year-old center. “I think it’ll help draw additional tenants,” he said.
Cianciarulo said Johnson City probably would have a store already were it not for the difficulty in locating the chosen site, which he called a good size (Earth Fare’s prototype is 27,000 square feet) and good location for Johnson City and for access to shoppers from other parts of the Tri-Cities.
“We have Johnson City people that travel a long way to buy groceries,” Cianciarulo said. “We bring almost 30,000 items in one building that may be available throughout the market in scattered smaller stores, but can’t be found in one place.”
Earth Fares have full-service meat departments, large produce sections, gourmet cheese that is cut and wrapped on-site after weekly deliveries from New York City and Europe, and extensive beer and wine selections, though the Johnson City store won’t have a wine section. The new store also will feature a deli/cafe, a large selection of nutritional supplements and, Cianciarulo said, selections from local farms and small businesses.
“We’re going to go out and open the door to anybody that we can support in the local arena,” Cianciarulo said. “It could be somebody with a marinade sauce that’s locally produced or a small farmer. We’re buying broccoli from Boone, N.C., and shipping it to all our stores, we purchased millions of dollars worth of local products last year, and we go out of our way, no matter how small a guy is, to try and support them.”
Despite becoming the country’s third-largest natural foods retailer (sales exceeded $100 million last year and its plans call for opening five or six stores a year), Cianciarulo said the company is sticking to an approach that benefits employees and seems to avoid running the “little guy” – such as Johnson City’s two existing health food stores – out of business.
“We bring more exposure to what they stand for, and they seem to thrive after we come in,” Cianciarulo said of independent competitors.
He said Earth Fare offers good benefits and gives full-time jobs to about 65 percent of employees, compared to about 30 percent in the supermarket industry as a whole.
By Jeff Keeling
Press Business Editor
Johnson City Press Chronicle
Natural foods outlet to open State of Franklin location in June.
Johnson City will become home to the Tri-Cities’ first natural foods supermarket later this year when Fletcher, N.C.-based Earth Fare opens for business in a space near East Tennessee State University.
“We’ve been looking at Johnson City for a couple years, actually, and it was just difficult to find a site,” Earth Fare CEO Michael Cianciarulo said Monday. He said the company will put a couple of million dollars into retrofitting the 24,000-square-foot space – currently home to a White’s Fresh Foods – at 1735 W. State of Franklin before opening in June, and eventually hire about 100 employees.
Cianciarulo said Tri-Citians can expect a store that caters to, among others, the vegetarian, health food and epicurean markets, that sources much of its product locally and that is a good employer and corporate citizen.
“We think it’s going to be something that brings a lot of good products and options to the people of the Tri-Cities,” he said.
The origins of Earth Fare lie in “Dinner for the Earth,” a small natural food store that opened in Asheville in 1975, changed its name to Earth Fare in 1993, upsized in 1994 and opened its second store, in Charleston, S.C., in 1997. Today, Earth Fare has 13 stores in four states, with three more under way, but still espouses the values that spawned the first store, at least according to the “Mission and Values” section of the company’s Web site:
“We support the empowerment, development and wellness of our customers and staff by operating a successful business focused on education, fair trade, organic and local foods, and other healthy choices for the environment and ourselves.”
Earth Fare’s pending arrival means the 24,000-square-foot anchor of the University Plaza strip center won’t sit waiting on a tenant. That was good news Monday to Larry England, who owns a Cartridge World store occupying one of the center’s smaller spaces.
“I was in a different business before this in a strip center and one of our main anchors went dark about a year after we had moved in – it really made a huge impact on our traffic,” England said.
England is excited about the arrival of Earth Fare and expects it to have positive effects on the 20-year-old center. “I think it’ll help draw additional tenants,” he said.
Cianciarulo said Johnson City probably would have a store already were it not for the difficulty in locating the chosen site, which he called a good size (Earth Fare’s prototype is 27,000 square feet) and good location for Johnson City and for access to shoppers from other parts of the Tri-Cities.
“We have Johnson City people that travel a long way to buy groceries,” Cianciarulo said. “We bring almost 30,000 items in one building that may be available throughout the market in scattered smaller stores, but can’t be found in one place.”
Earth Fares have full-service meat departments, large produce sections, gourmet cheese that is cut and wrapped on-site after weekly deliveries from New York City and Europe, and extensive beer and wine selections, though the Johnson City store won’t have a wine section. The new store also will feature a deli/cafe, a large selection of nutritional supplements and, Cianciarulo said, selections from local farms and small businesses.
“We’re going to go out and open the door to anybody that we can support in the local arena,” Cianciarulo said. “It could be somebody with a marinade sauce that’s locally produced or a small farmer. We’re buying broccoli from Boone, N.C., and shipping it to all our stores, we purchased millions of dollars worth of local products last year, and we go out of our way, no matter how small a guy is, to try and support them.”
Despite becoming the country’s third-largest natural foods retailer (sales exceeded $100 million last year and its plans call for opening five or six stores a year), Cianciarulo said the company is sticking to an approach that benefits employees and seems to avoid running the “little guy” – such as Johnson City’s two existing health food stores – out of business.
“We bring more exposure to what they stand for, and they seem to thrive after we come in,” Cianciarulo said of independent competitors.
He said Earth Fare offers good benefits and gives full-time jobs to about 65 percent of employees, compared to about 30 percent in the supermarket industry as a whole.
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