Home Centers

In 1979, home centers took bold steps toward vivid interior design. Some worked. Some didn't.

There's a favorite chain for buying appliances, according to J.D. Power.

In 1984, a warehouse home center with a hardware store footprint rolled the dice. 

Pirch has opened its largest store to date, a three-floor, 32,000-sq.-ft. flagship in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood.

Soloman Lowi, one of the pioneers of the home improvement warehouse format, died on May 1. He was one day short of 90 years old. 

The newest Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores outpost recently opened its doors in Muskogee, Oklahoma, marking 34 Sears Hometown openings in 2014 overall and the 16th Sears Hometown and Outlet.

Highfield Door Sales, a Kettering, Ohio, business that installs garage door openers for nine local Lowe’s stores, has purchased and is renovating a 20,000-sq.-ft. former wine and beer warehouse store to expand its operations, according to an article in the Dayton Daily News. 

The family-owned business, which started in 2009 with just one employee, currently operates out of a leased 1,700-sq.-ft. building in this Dayton-area town.

Following a 14-day protest by the Ohio & Vicinity Regional Council of Carpenters, Menards Stores...