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* 7001 [[Crestwood Boulevard]], [[Crestwood Festival Center]] (1995–)
* 7001 [[Crestwood Boulevard]], [[Crestwood Festival Center]] (1995–)
* 6405 [[Flintridge Drive]], [[Fairfield]] (1995–)
* 6405 [[Flintridge Drive]], [[Fairfield]] (1995–)
* 4995 [[U. S. Highway 280]], [[Inverness]]
* 4995 [[U. S. Highway 280]], [[Inverness]] (c. [[1999]]–)
* 1460 [[U. S. Highway 280]], [[Alexander City]]
* 1460 [[U. S. Highway 280]], [[Alexander City]]
* 1808 [[U. S. Highway 78]], [[Jasper]]
* 1808 [[U. S. Highway 78]], [[Jasper]]
* 3191 [[Pelham Parkway]], [[Pelham]]
* 3191 [[Pelham Parkway]], [[Pelham]] (c. [[2002]]–)
* 289 [[Vaughan Lane]], [[Pell City]]
* 289 [[Vaughan Lane]], [[Pell City]]
* 41310 [[U. S. Highway 280]], [[Sylacauga]]
* 41310 [[U. S. Highway 280]], [[Sylacauga]]
* 1600 [[Gadsden Highway]], [[Trussville]]
* 1600 [[Gadsden Highway]], [[Trussville]] <!-- Opened 2001 or earlier -->
* 1601 13th Avenue East, [[Tuscaloosa]]
* 1601 13th Avenue East, [[Tuscaloosa]]



Revision as of 09:06, 2 May 2012

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The Home Depot is an Atlanta, Georgia-based "big box" home and garden retail chain. The company, founded in 1978, entered the Birmingham market with three stores which opened in 1995. The company now has 11 stores in central Alabama and 2,248 in North American and China. The current chairman and CEO is Frank Blake.

When the first Birmingham stores opened, they each took spots near an existing Home Quarters Warehouse. The first was near the Galleria 10 theater at the Riverchase Galleria. The second was at Eastwood Festival Center. That store had originally been proposed for the site of Lawson Field, but engineering questions arose. The third location opened on a site near the Flintridge Building in Fairfield, lured by $1 million in infrastructure improvements pledged by then-mayor Larry Langford.

The company opened a 600,000 square-foot Home Depot rapid deployment center at the JeffMet McCalla industrial park in November 2009.

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References

  • Anderson, Jon (March 17, 1994) "Home Depot plans 3 Birmingham stores: Riverchase, Fairfield, Eastwood sites chosen." Birmingham News
  • Cooper, Lauren B. (November 18, 2009) "Home Depot opens McCalla distribution center." Birmingham Business Journal

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