Homestead Timber Frames will be relocating its headquarters from Crossville to Cookeville.
General Manager Tim Dennis said Homestead Timber Frames has resided in the Crab Orchard and Crossville area since 2006. Dennis said the move will help the company expand.
“Cookeville is a great place and has a whole lot of opportunity,” Dennis said. “A lot of resources in Cookeville. A lot of the folks that work here at Homestead Timber Frames already reside in Cookeville including myself, so it just kind of seemed like a smart thing to do.”
Dennis said the company will be constructing a 10,000-square-foot facility just off exit 283 on I-40. Dennis said the company will begin its move to Cookeville in mid-April.
“We are looking to move into our temporary facilities that are being constructed currently,” Dennis said. “We are looking at a roughly 5,000-square-foot warehouse but while we continue to operate and produce timber frames we are gonna be constructing a larger facility.”
Dennis said the business needed to grow as demand was increasing in the Upper Cumberland.
“We definitely have seen an increase in demand especially in homebuilding in general,” Dennis said. “What we are doing here is kind of a niche market. You know, it’s not something that necessarily everyone desires like in the form of a home or an outdoor pavilion, but yes we have definitely seen an increase in interest in what we do not just in the last few years but steadily over the past few decades.”
Dennis said the plans for the headquarters are already in the works and the company is waiting for a final design. Dennis said there are still several steps the company has to work through before the construction of the headquarters can begin.
Dennis said the company is selling the property in Crossville and that there is a potential buyer but the sale is not official just yet.
