![]() ![]() My wife and two sisters own it, and we’re using a little over 1,000 square feet. We might open it for a special event once a month, or something like that. “But I don’t know if there’s enough support for a full-time boutique. “It’s just a warehouse for now, but we’re looking at the possibility of opening a store there,” Zach Bates said. Orders have become so robust that Zach and the three women decided to rent part of a building to use as a warehouse, and earlier this month they moved into the two vacant business spaces in the building that also houses Little Caesars Pizza at 301 Norris Freeway, next to the Dollar General store. The three women involved in the boutique started the business out of one of their homes in 2019, and it has blossomed since then, said Zach Bates, who is a former Anderson County commissioner who also worked as an Anderson County sheriff’s deputy for 10 years. Most of them live in Rocky Top, where Gil Bates runs a tree service and Kelly Jo Bates is a full-time homemaker. ![]() The Bates family on the TV show refers to Gil and Kelly Jo Bates and their 19 children - including Zachary, Erin, Carlin - as well as their grandchildren and the spouses of their children. Two of the three are actually sisters - Erin Bates Paine and Carlin Bates Stewart - while the third, Whitney Bates, is the wife of their oldest sibling, Zachary Bates. The women are members of the family that stars in the UPtv cable channel show “Bringing Up Bates,” which begins its 10th season in a few weeks. ![]() Three members of a Rocky Top family that has its own reality TV show have moved their women’s clothing boutique business into a part of a building next to a pizza place just off Interstate 75 in the town.įor now, the Bates Sisters Boutique is not open to the public, but the building is being used as a warehouse for the women’s line of clothing, and as a modeling photo-shoot location for the clothing featured in their online store. TV’s Bates Family moves warehouse for boutique into Rocky Top building ![]()
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