TRP Sumner is constructing a new building off of Robeson Street. 

Much of the need for a new office space stemmed from a merger, Janet Carter, TRP Sumner’s sales and marketing director, said. In 2020 TRP CPAs, PLLC and McFadyen & Sumner, CPAs PA announced that they would merge into one firm, TRP Sumner PLLC. 

Combining the Fayetteville and Dunn offices, the company has 18 CPAs and 70 local employees, so with the merger came a need for a new space. 

“Currently we have two locations in Fayetteville,” Lisa Sessoms, a partner at TRP Sumner,  said. “What we found was we needed about 16 or 17,000 square feet to house everyone who works in the Fayetteville offices, and we just could not find one location that was big enough for all of us. So we took a step and decided, ‘Well, what if we went with a campus concept where it was multiple buildings but on one piece of property?’” 

Franklin Johnson owned a building nearby the Robeson Street office that was for sale, so Sessoms said the team saw the benefit in buying it and remodeling to fit TRP Sumner’s needs. 

The existing TRP Sumner office, which sits right behind the new construction, is roughly 5,000 square feet, Sessoms estimated. 

“The total square footage of the new building will be 11,530 square feet,” Carter said. 

The company hopes that the project will be completed around Thanksgiving and plans to have an open house upon completion. 

“We’ve got an awesome team here and people who bring a lot of skills and talent and knowledge to the table … and the building project is no different,” Sessoms said.