On Sunday, February 9,
the Asheville Habitat ReStore made the first of fifteen trips to
Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort and to pick up five suites of furniture.
The highest grossing casino in the Caesars network,
Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort will be replacing existing furniture with new
furniture, updating one floor each week. That means 23 rooms of furniture will
be donated to the Asheville Habitat ReStore every
Sunday for 14 weeks, starting February 23. The donation includes sofas,
dressers, bedside tables, desks, chairs, lamps, and granite top coffee tables.
All items will be sold in the ReStore, with proceeds used to help Habitat build
and repair homes in the community.
Tasked with figuring out what to do with the old
furniture, Grounds Property Manager Zeke Cooper quickly
thought of Habitat. A ReStore customer himself, he approached ReStore Donation
Manager Jay Sloan. The details were quickly worked out and the resort made an
initial donation to the ReStore at the end of 2013. Vice President of
Human Resources and Community Relations, Jo Blaylock said, "Donations of
this size are rare and very important to our community partners in helping them
to reach their mission goals. We are thrilled to be able to partner with
Habitat for Humanity in support of their mission to transform the lives of people
around the world."
Sloan
added, “It’s important for us to always have a showroom full of quality items,
and donations like this go a long way to helping us achieve that. We are
grateful for Harrah’s incredible generosity and the timing is perfect, as this
is typically a slow time of year for residential donations.”
To
learn more about donating, shopping, or volunteering with the ReStore, please visit
ashevillehabitat.org/restore.
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