Google will index them all if they are correctly built to prevailing SEO standards, with optimal nav navigation, good hierarchy, perfect on page optimization, etc. Each of your domains is targeting a slightly different segment of the same market, so "retail leather sofas" and wholesale leather sofas" target their specific niches; you'll be competing against yourself for "leather sofas' (and a whole lot of other sites) but if your content is good (and differs across properties) you shouldn't have an issue getting indexed.

Our sites has 12 sub-domains covering specific sub-categories of the same general topic - with over 600K pages - 95% are indexed, and frequently pages from two or more sub-domains appear for the same search query, even though the page layouts and templates are virtually identical and have the same IP address. It's the content that differentiates them, yet at the same time makes them relevant for the same KW phrase.

Minor differences such as a suite make no difference - company description, city, and ZIP should be consistent across all local listings - Yelp, Bing, Yahoo, Trip Adviser, etc.

Here's some good links for details / suggestions for consistency:
The Basics of Local SEO - Whiteboard Friday
Dissecting Local SEO Via Competitive Analysis

Local Search Data Providers @ get listed.org

Links to Local Search Universe

Search Engine Land Locals Only:
http://searchengineland.com/what-not-to-do-on-local-business-websites-81650

I disagree. One might infer that using Google's site search product on your site might be a ticket in that just doesn't seem to be the case as the site I work for utilized Google's first search appliance back in 2004 and now uses Google's site search. As a "go figure" example, here's two large online cycling retailers - one earns search, the other doesn't (Performance Bike, Bike Nashbar). neither is using Google site search.

A terse response on the GWT help forum answers that same question with "There is nothing you can do. Google will add it automatically if the algorithm deems the site worthy." Just as with sitelinks being a product of search volume and clear navigation choices, it would seem Google would be looking for similar qualities here. It's not necessarily site traffic volume, as neither Macys or Target earn this feature. This is an ask Matt Cutts question at the next SES or SMX.

Having too many links is the least of your worries on these pages. Looking at the view source there's a lot of code (508 lines of it) clogging up the bots path to any content, let alone the links. Your menu structure is over complex from a code point of view, the pages are rendered in tables, there's a lot of on page JavaScript that could be minified and/or accessed thru a separate file,  I don't see an

tag here's the link to one of your stylesheets

Your example About Us page scores a very low 57/100 on Google's page speed tester - that alone could be a reason the pages aren't being indexed well.

Looks like programmers we're driving the bus when the site was built.

We have successfully rolled out 5 sub-domains using very industry specific KWs as the sub, e.g. familylawyers. We're rolling our an employment focused sub.and ideally would use employmentlawyers.XXX.com.

However I'm tempted to use a long established (5+ years) sub-domain with a topic related KW that now hosts a non-active blog with PR3 -  employment-law.XXXX.com. It has 49 indexed pages, some with PR2. So there's potential for getting a kickstart on traffic and trust with some redirects. Should I go for instant gratification or build for the long haul with the slightly more beneficial URL KWing?

I should add that this sub-domain will have thousands of pages that are geo and sub-category focused - a typical URL would be. sub-domain.XXX.com/TX/Austin/wrongful-termination-lawyers.html

THX for any opinions.

I have used the mechanical turk in a reputation management scenario to help move a negative search suggest down, down, down by having other searches conducted by turks, such as "brandname coupons", "brandname reviews". (The term was "brandname scam". ) Only a set number a week were tasked and always a different combo of terms. The actual mechanical turk task contracted for was at face value legit - to search for the particular set of terms and note where in the top 10 search results the "brandname" domain fell.