CORMANS TO BUILD YELLOWSTONE STORE
LEXINGTON, KY—Corman and Associates, the Lexington-based company nationally known for its expertise in developing retail environments for many high profile companies around the country, has signed on to build the new retail store at the iconic Old Faithful Visitors Center in Yellowstone National Park.
The new store is being built for the non-profit Yellowstone Association that operates many of the retail shops throughout Yellowstone National Park. Corman is working with Black River Architects, Cambridge, MA to bring their unique design to fulfillment. Cormans has previously built stores at Yosemite National Park in California and Canyonlands in Moab, Utah, as well as multiple retail venues for all types of other cultural facilities nationwide.
Corman and Associates, long known locally as a Christmas retailer, has been a major influence and provider for retail stores nationwide for more than 60 years. The Company has now begun to focus primarily on its national core business of defining retail environments. The restructuring includes a de-emphasis on the Christmas retail and the elimination of home accessories and seasonal florals in order to concentrate in its area of greatest success.
“We may revisit the Christmas line someday, but for now our business strategy is to concentrate on what we do best, manufacture retail store fixtures,” explains Ted Corman, president. “Our design and engineering division has just developed an innovative K-line of retail fixtures that can be fully assembled without tools or hardware. These new fixtures will set the industry standard for knockdown, portable retail spaces.”
The Corman Marketplace space is now home to Central Kentucky’s largest retail display hardware and accessory showroom. The retail display division has long been the resource for local and regional retailers. Also, the region’s largest showroom for trade show exhibits is located at the Corman corporate headquarters on Floyd Drive in Lexington.