In 2005, The Mitchell County Development Foundation leased and renovated a retail facility in downtown Spruce Pine to serve as the Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree store. The Foundation formed a Product Review Committee composed of highly qualified crafts people to designate product quality standards, and conducted calls to artists for handcrafted products to be licensed as Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree merchandise. The calls were answered, and the Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree collection now features over 300 high quality products by sixty product makers from the mountain counties of Mitchell, Yancey, McDowell, Avery and Buncombe.