What do you do with a 25-foot-tall chair? Make it a tourist attraction.
That's what the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corp. plans to do with a giant chair made by Bassett Furniture Industries for its 100th anniversary in 2002, according to the Martinsville Bulletin.
The organization hopes the chair will lure tourists to a planned furniture outlet in Martinsville.
President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Health unveiled plans Thursday for the Big Chair Project. They include converting a parking lot into a park centered around the chair.
Fred Martin's family owns the lot and the building that's being converted into the outlet. Martin says people will come to Martinsville just to see the chair.
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