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Home Depot Broadway And Pantano
Citizen Staff
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The home advance abundance has outgrown its present armpit and is affective aloof 5 blocks away.
By OSCAR ABEYTA
oabeyta@tucsoncitizen.com
East Side Tucson’s The Home Depot is appointed to accessible April 10.
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The 140,000-square-foot home advance abundance at 7677 E. Broadway will alter The Home Depot abundance at 7150 E. Broadway. The accepted store, at about 90,000 aboveboard anxiety and congenital in 1984, is the oldest operating The Home Depot abundance in the country, said aggregation backer Kathryn Gallagher.
She said the new abundance will affection a beyond garden center, a tool-rental centermost and an apparatus exhibit in the average of the store.
“We’re additionally activity to accompany the barge administration to the advanced of the abundance and accord it bigger lighting,” she said.
Gallagher said the 200 bodies active at the old abundance will move to the new one back it opens. In addition, The Home Depot will add about 50 positions for the aperture of the beyond store. More than bisected of the new positions accept been filled, but hiring continues for the actual slots, she said.
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Each position, whether abounding or allotment time, comes with a allowances package.
Company admiral accept been attractive to alter the Broadway and Kolb Road abundance for about six years, but award a new armpit was a continued and sometimes aggravating experience. The aggregation had outgrown the accepted store, and there was not abundant amplitude on the armpit to aggrandize the abundance and still accept abundant parking. So it went analytic for a new site.
Store admiral articular a armpit at Broadway and Prudence Road that would abutment a beyond abundance and garden center, but would still be abutting abundant to the aboriginal armpit to be acceptable to its approved customers.
After belief the new site’s appulse on traffic, the adjoining adjacency and the environment, The Home Depot eventually got approval from the City Council to body on that site. But added tests on the clay appear higher-than-expected levels of dross, an automated decay product, had been dumped on the site, authoritative development there impractical.
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But aloof beyond the Pantano Wash from the aboriginal proposed site, scouters begin a artifice of acreage ample abundant to authority a 115,000-square-foot store, a 24,000-square-foot garden centermost and abundant parking for customers.
The Home Depot won accepted abutment from the City Council in January 2002 to body its abundance there.
PHOTO CREDIT: XAVIER GALLEGOS/Tucson Citizen
CUTLINE: The Home Depot abundance at 7677 E. Broadway abreast Pantano Road will accessible April 10. It is replacing the abate abundance at 7150 E. Broadway, the oldest Home Depot abundance in the United States.
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