Recently, the Ashley Furniture Store, located at 850 Barnes Drive in the Stonecreek Crossing Shopping Center, opened with fanfare and activities. The new store takes on the old footprint of the former Bealls. Inside, store management extended an opportunity for other businesses to have pop up stands throughout. For new shoppers, there was also a DJ, and employees were handing out promotional cards and other grand opening items.
Ashley General Manager Dustin Seiver said the store will honor grand opening cards until Aug. 31, a grand opening benefit that provides customers with discounts.
Of the small businesses set up at the opening, one of them was from San Marcos. Douglas Smith Soap is a local artisan soap company that Michael Douglas-Smith and his husband Kevin Douglas-Smith started during the pandemic. Douglas-Smith held down the stand at the opening, while his husband Kevin was at the Farmers Market on the Square this Saturday– where the couple usually sells their products from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
