McCoy Rockford, a Houston-based commercial interiors firm, is shaking up both its leadership and its floor plan, naming Mike Luna as its new chief executive while planning a roughly 145,000-square-foot showroom at 7110 Old Katy Road that the company says will open this summer. The new facility is being sold as a working, lived-in environment where clients can see furniture staged in realistic hybrid office setups. If completed as described, the expansion would rank among the largest commercial furniture showrooms in Texas and marks a major hometown bet on the future of workplace design.
What the company announced
As reported by Community Impact, McCoy Rockford has named Mike Luna chairman and CEO and is pitching the Old Katy Road site as a space where “customers can see furniture in realistic scenarios.” Coverage of the move presents it as both a leadership shift and a strategic effort to showcase products for corporate, healthcare, and education clients.
Local reporting and company comments
Houston Business Journal notes the planned showroom will be about 145,000 square feet and highlights Luna’s comment that “It’s not just a showroom,” as the firm tries to position the buildout as a working lab for hybrid workplaces. The report adds that the buildout is slated for summer 2026 and that McCoy Rockford partners with more than 200 manufacturers, according to a May 12 news release.
Leadership pages tell different stories
McCoy Rockford’s own website is currently sending mixed signals about who is actually in charge. The leadership team page lists Mike Luna as chief executive, while a separate company news post announced Chris Erdeljac as CEO effective April 4 following the retirement of longtime CEO Ken Beaver. Both pages are live on the firm’s site, suggesting a rapid or somewhat tangled transition in the executive ranks.
Timeline and lease questions
A Cushman & Wakefield sublease flyer for 7110 Old Katy Road lists the available space at 142,400 square feet and shows a sublease expiration date of August 31, 2026. That could complicate a summer opening if a long-term occupancy deal is not already locked in. The modest square-footage discrepancy between the flyer and local reporting hints that the buildout may be happening under a sublease arrangement, or that the numbers are simply being rounded in press materials.
Why this matters for Houston design
Large, experiential showrooms have increasingly become a go-to way for manufacturers and dealers to give architects and corporate buyers near-real-world testing grounds as workplaces tilt toward hybrid models. Industry coverage of NeoCon and other market events has spotlighted the shift toward immersive, design-forward retail spaces. That larger trend makes McCoy Rockford’s gamble look logical if employers and specifiers keep favoring hands-on evaluation when choosing systems furniture, seating, and architectural solutions.
What to watch next
Key questions now are who officially holds the CEO title and when the company will pin down a firm opening date and occupancy terms for 7110 Old Katy Road. If McCoy Rockford does manage to open the space this summer, it will land as a sizable new player in Houston’s commercial interiors scene and a closely watched test case for experiential showroom investments in a post-pandemic workplace era.
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