T&T Tinting Specialists Inc. is moving from its location in Salt Lake to a much larger space near Honolulu International Airport, the company announced today.

Owner Tommy Silva said the company has signed a long-term lease for a 14,200-square-foot showroom and warehouse at the site of the former Far Eastern Furnishings building on Koapaka Street. The Salt Lake location, located behind a planned Target store, was 3,000 square feet in size.

The company, which began tinting automobile windows 20 years ago, has expanded to tinting windows on homes, commercial buildings, and installing security films for hurricane, burglary and bomb blast protection, Silva said.

Besides needing more space, T&T also was unable to reach terms on a new lease at the Target site, Silva said. He said the lease rent would have almost tripled at the Salt Lake location.

T&T Tinting will occupy the front half of the new space in mid November, shortly before vacating the Salt lake location. Silva said is looking for a complementary business to occupy the back half of the building that he will sublease.