Coconut Creek Home Depot Pump
Builders Aboveboard bankrupt three South Florida food on Tuesday, adage they were age-old and alone hardly profitable.
The food in Davie, Coconut Creek and North Palm Beach will reopen on Sept. 23 for a final auction of about four weeks and again abutting permanently. About 450 workers will lose their jobs.
Builders Aboveboard bankrupt its Lauderdale Lakes abundance in July. The closings leave Builders Aboveboard with bristles food in South Florida.
A Builders Aboveboard agent said the company, which is endemic by Kmart, is closing the food so it can alter them after with new, beyond stores.
``Many of the food we accept there are off the baffled path, in agreement of traffic,`` agent Mark James said. ``We`ve got a cardinal of sites that could angle improvement.``
Builders Square`s South Florida sites were either bought from the asleep Mr. How chain, or the asleep Jefferson Ward chain. The Coconut Creek and Davie sites aboriginal opened in 1982 as Homeowners Warehouse stores.
Builders Square`s arch rival, The Home Depot, could not advice crowing over the closings.
Home Depot agent Lonnie Fogel said that Builders Aboveboard afresh bankrupt four food it had opened with a burst in 1987 in Home Depot`s Atlanta aback yard.
``It appears they don`t appetite to attempt with us,`` he said.
Home Depot has 16 food in South Florida, and affairs to accessible addition in January, at 1151 NW 24th St., Pompano Beach, he said. The aggregation additionally affairs to move into the arctic Palm Beach County breadth of Palm Springs to a beyond location.
James, of Builders Square, said the alternation affairs to body several new, beyond food in South Florida starting in 1992. He would not acknowledge area or back the food would be built. He said the food would be 90,000 to 100,000 aboveboard feet, compared to 60,000 to 70,000 at the food actuality closed.
The advisers who will lose their jobs at the three food can administer for jobs at added Kmart subsidiaries, James said.
