Lumber Liquidators moving HQ, warehousing out of Virginia

Flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators is in the final stages of relocating its headquarters and distribution operations from the Richmond region to Tennessee, shifting key parts of its business out of the area more than a year after founder Tom Sullivan reacquired its assets out of bankruptcy.

Sullivan said Tuesday the company has already largely moved its headquarters functions to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, with the remaining transition — primarily inventory — expected to be completed over the next three months.

The Tennessee move is expected to create 76 jobs in that region. Sullivan said about 50 employees were working in the company’s Richmond-area warehouse operations, all of whom were offered the opportunity to relocate. He said it remains unclear how many will ultimately move.

The relocation follows Sullivan’s reacquisition of the company’s assets after its previous iteration, LL Flooring, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2024. Sullivan, who founded Lumber Liquidators in 1994 and led it until 2016, retained 219 of the company’s more than 400 stores in a late 2024 bankruptcy sale and reverted the brand to Lumber Liquidators. The company had rebranded to LL Flooring in 2021.

Lumber Liquidators has been operating out of about 600,000 square feet of its former distribution center at 6115 Technology Creek Drive in Henrico County‘s Sandston area under a lease since LL Flooring sold the roughly 1 million-square-foot facility to to QTS Data Centers for $104.75 million in 2024.

Sullivan said the company is now moving the remaining inventory out of that site as it transitions operations to Tennessee.

Lumber Liquidators’ warehousing operations are being moved into a newly constructed 500,000-square-foot facility in Lawrenceburg, expanding the company’s footprint there to roughly 1.3 million square feet, including 800,000 square feet of existing space used by its sister company, Cabinets To Go, which Sullivan also owns.

Sullivan said construction on the new facility began in fall 2024 and wrapped up this past month. The company invested $32.4 million in the relocation.

Sullivan said the expanded footprint will allow the company to consolidate distribution for both Lumber Liquidators and Cabinets To Go into a single, centrally located hub, leading to quicker service to customers nationwide.

“So the warehousing and transportation becomes much more efficient,” Sullivan said. “Tennessee is in more of the middle of the country, [so] we can be anywhere in the country in two to three days.”

While the company is moving its headquarters and distribution operations out of Virginia, it will maintain a retail presence in the state, including stores in Richmond, Virginia Beach, Lynchburg and other markets.

The company has not yet returned to profitability following the acquisition but is “getting there,” Sullivan said, noting that the cost and disruption of the move have impacted the company’s near-term performance.

Lumber Liquidators is a specialty retailer of waterproof and hardwood flooring with more than 200 stores nationwide. The company currently employs about 1,500 people across Lumber Liquidators and Cabinets To Go, according to Sullivan.