Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1994                   TAG: 9407200009
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: SANDRA BROWN KELLY STAFF WRITER
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IMPORTERS BUY BUILDING FOR STORAGE

Louis M. Scutellaro and Dolores A. Scutellaro, principal owners of Passport Furniture, paid Grumman $400,000 for the 45,000-square-foot building, which is on more than four acres on Third Street. They plan to use it for a warehouse.

The couple have been renting warehouse space for Passport in the former Kroger Bakery Building on the corner of Fifth Street and Salem Avenue in Roanoke.

Tom Turner, commercial real estate agent with Hall Associates Inc., said the old Kroger building is for sale for $495,000. He said the San Francisco owner, Elias Emergui, bought the building originally as a distribution center for his S.E.E. Imports, but since has learned he can serve the East Coast from his West Coast warehouse.

The Scutellaros also operate Mario Industries Inc., which manufactures lamps; Finial Showcase, which sells finials and other lamp components; and Lamp Works, a gift and lamp shop. They moved the businesses from New York to the Roanoke Valley in 1988.