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  • EMILY:..FIRST AT NOON -- A

  • MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT THIS

  • MORNING.ART VAN IS BECOMING A

  • THING OF THE

  • PAST.TOM:..THE COMPANY IS

  • SHUTTING DOWN OPERATIONS AND

  • WILL START LIQUIDATING ITS

  • ASSESTS áTOMORROW.

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  • NEWS 8'S DONOVAN LONG LEADS

  • OUR COVERAGE THIS AFTEROON

  • LIVE FROM THE ART VAN ON 28TH

  • STREET IN GRAND RAPIDS.

  • DONOVAN?

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  • DONOVAN:..EMILY AND TOM--ART

  • VAN IS CLOSING ITS DOORS FOR

  • GOOD--AFFECTING THIRTY-ONE

  • HUNDRED WORKERS IN THE MIDWEST.

  • WE'RE TOLD THE COMPANY IS

  • GOING OUT OF BUSINESSES

  • BECAUSE IT HAS STUGGLED TO

  • KEEP UP IN A COMPETITVIE

  • RETAIL ENVINRONEMNT.

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  • AS A RESULT--THE COMPANY WILL

  • BEGIN LIQUIDATING ALL OF ITS

  • STORES TOMRROW.THAT INLCUDES

  • SEVEN ART VAN LOCATION AND SIX

  • PURE SLEEP LOCATIONS IN WEST

  • MICHIGAN. YOU CAN SEE WHERE

  • THEY ARE LOCATED RIGHT NOW ON

  • YOUR SCREEN.

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  • WE'RE TOLD LEVIN FURNITURE AND

  • WOLF FURNITURE STORES, WHICH

  • ART VAN ACQUIRED THREE YEARS

  • AGO, WILL BE SOLD BACK TO

  • ROBERT LEVIN, PENDING COURT

  • APPROVAL.ART VAN FURNITURE

  • STARTED IN 1959 AS A SINGLE

  • STORE IN DETRIOIT. A

  • SPOKESPERSON FOR THE COMPANY

  • SAYS SHE EXTENDED A SINCERE

  • APPRECIATION TO THE EMPLOYEES

  • FOR THEIR DEDICATION,

  • COMMITMENT AND HARD WORK AND

  • IS GRATEFULT TO ALL THE

  • CUSTOMERS WHOV'E SUPPORTED THE

  • COMPANY.

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  • (( DIANE CHARLES / ART VAN

  • SPOKESPERSON // THIS IS A VERY

  • SAD DAY FOR ART VAN AND THE

  • STATE OF MICHIGAN. FOR DECADES

  • WE HAVE BEEN IN PEOPLE'S HOMES

  • AND NOW WE WON'T BE. IT'S NOT

  • JUST IMPACTING EMPLOYEES, BUT

  • COMMUNITIES. REMEMBER, WE DO

  • SUPPORT THINGS LIKE THE PARADE

  • AND THE SPORTS COMPLEX AND

  • HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF

  • CHARITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE

  • OF MICHIGAN ))

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  • DONOVAN:..

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  • DONOVAN:..ART VAN FURNITURE

  • OPERATES NEARLY 200 STORES IN

  • SEVERAL MIDWEST STATES AND IN

  • IOWA PENNSYLVANIA VIRGINIA AND

  • PENNSYLVANIA IOWA PENNSYLVANIA

  • VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND.THE MAN

  • WHO FOUNDED THE COMPANY-ART

  • VAN ELSLANDER-DIED TWO YEARS

  • AGO.LIVE IN GRAND RAPIDS

  • DONOVAN LONG L

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  • EMILY:..YOU HEARD DIANE

  • CHARLES MENTION THIS DURING

  • HER INTERVIEW WITH DONOVAN...

  • HERE IN WEST MICHIGAN, ART VAN

  • HAS BEEN MORE THAN JUST A

  • FURNITURE STORE.

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  • FOR YEARS THEY HAVE SPONOSORED

  • THE ART VAN SANTA PARADE

  • THROUGH DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS.

  • THIS IS VIDEO FROM OUR

  • BROADCAST OF THE PARADE LAST

  • NOVEMBER.

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  • ART VAN ALSO SPONSORED THE

  • SPORTS COMPLEX THAT OPENED IN

  • 2014 IN ROCKFORD.THERE ARE

  • EIGHT BASEBALL FIELDS AT THE

  • FACILITY -- THAT HOSTS

  • TOURNAMENTS THROUGHOUT THE

  • WARMER MONTHS.BOTH THE PARADE

  • AND SPORTS COMPLEX WILL NOW BE

  • LOOKING FOR NEW SPONSORS.WE'LL

  • CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS STORY

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