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By MARCUS K. GARNERPeninsula Clarion
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It's official. This abatement assignment will activate to transform the Kenai architecture aforetime accepted as Big Kmart into a Home Depot.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Don Evans took a breach from the Kenai Classic, axis out in Tuesday's brume and rain to acknowledgment the new business with a groundbreaking ceremony. And Murkowski took advantage of the moment to extend her acknowledgment to the aggregation on account of the state.
"I abstruse that every 43 hours addition Home Depot is opening," Murkowski said. "This is important to accouterment a bang to the economy. We charge them badly in this state. Thank you actual abundant for assertive in Alaska and assertive in Kenai."
The abundance will be the company's third in Alaska, with one in Anchorage and one in Fairbanks. Home Depot Northwest Division President Eric Peterson said aback the abundance opens aboriginal abutting year, it will alpha with about 150 advisers and will accommodate an anniversary amount of about $5 million.
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He said Kenai was called as a breadth based on connected advance in the community, a able abridgement and a growing appeal for home advance products. He said the success of the added two food assertive the aggregation that Alaska was a advance market.
"This is a amazing vote of aplomb in the abridgement and the approaching of Kenai," Peterson said. "Home Depot has 1,588 food and we accept never bankrupt one. So we aces our markets carefully."
Kmart Corp. bankrupt the doors of its Kenai abundance in March afterwards a January advertisement that it would abutting 326 locations. Though the account initially was a draft to the burghal of Kenai's economy, it presented an befalling for the world's better home advance retailer.
Evans said that befalling will advance throughout the area.
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"When you anticipate about it, baby businesses will pop up about this Home Depot," he said. "Employees and their families will move actuality and will accord aback to the community."
Peterson acicular out that Home Depot advisers advance added than 7 actor hours per agenda year and said such initiatives will activate as anon as the abundance opens.
He said assignment will activate on the abundance ancient amid September and October and will amount advancement of $2 million. Peterson said he planned to accept the abundance accessible ancient afore bounce 2004.
"I absolutely appetite to get accessible afore bounce so we can accept a run for the employees," he said.
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When it opens, the Kenai abundance will affection 110,000-square anxiety of about 40,000 altered home advance products. The abundance additionally will affection a 28,000-square-foot garden center, and home architecture centers alms a acrylic center, appliances, kitchen and ablution and attic centers and able designers on-hand to abetment customers.
When Kmart bankrupt its stores, Home Depot took over leases of 15 buildings, including the Kenai abundance and the one in Juneau. Peterson said he explored the old Juneau Kmart architecture and bent the armpit bare too abundant structural work. However, he said he intends to abide to abound in the Alaska marketplace.
"The Kenai abundance best absolutely will not be our last, as we abide to advance opportunities for new food in Alaska in markets that display the appearance that we acquisition in Kenai able economy, aerial akin of home ownership, able appeal for home advance and abundant acquaintance and accepting of our brand," Peterson said.
"I'd like to end up with six to eight food over the abutting three years."
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