Lumber Liquidators to close Henrico facility, impacting 65 workers

Flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators plans to permanently shut down its distribution center in Henrico County on June 30, terminating about 65 positions at the site.

The company notified the state of the layoffs in an May 4 letter filed under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The facility is located at 6115 Engineered Wood Way in Sandston.

Founder Tom Sullivan confirmed the closure is part of the company’s ongoing relocation of its headquarters and distribution operations from the Richmond region to Tennessee, more than a year after he reacquired the company’s assets out of bankruptcy.

Most headquarters functions have already moved to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, with the remaining transition, primarily inventory relocation, expected to wrap up by the end of June.

The Tennessee expansion is expected to create 76 jobs. Sullivan said employees in the company’s Richmond-area warehouse operations were offered the opportunity to relocate, and about 20 Sandston employees accepted positions in Tennessee.

The affected employees are not represented by a union and do not have bumping rights.

The move 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 the company until 2016, retained 219 of its more than 400 stores in a late 2024 bankruptcy sale and restored the Lumber Liquidators name. The company had rebranded to LL Flooring in 2021.

Lumber Liquidators has been operating out of roughly 600,000 square feet of its former Sandston distribution center under a lease since LL Flooring sold the nearly 1 million-square-foot property to QTS Data Centers for $104.75 million in 2024.

The company’s warehousing operations are being relocated to a newly built 500,000-square-foot facility in Lawrenceburg, expanding its footprint there to about 1.3 million square feet, including 800,000 square feet already occupied by sister company Cabinets To Go, which Sullivan also owns.

Sullivan previously said the expanded footprint would allow Lumber Liquidators and Cabinets To Go to consolidate distribution into a single centrally located hub, improving delivery times nationwide.

Despite moving its headquarters and distribution operations out of Virginia, Lumber Liquidators will maintain retail stores in the state, including locations in Richmond, Virginia Beach and Lynchburg.

Lumber Liquidators is a specialty retailer of waterproof and hardwood flooring with more than 200 stores nationwide. The company and Cabinets To Go employ about 1,500 people combined.