Builders Square
Defunct American home improvement retailer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Builders Square was a big-box home improvement retailer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.[1] A subsidiary of Kmart, its format was quite similar to The Home Depot, Menards, and Lowe's with floor space of about 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2),[2][3] and inventories in excess of 35,000 different items.[4] In 1997, a Los Angeles leveraged buyout specialist acquired Builders Square and merged it with Hechinger but the new combined company failed to thrive and all remaining stores ceased business operations by the end of 1999.[5]
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Company type | Originally, home improvement retailer Second version, online retailer |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1970; 54 years ago (1970) (original) 2006; 18 years ago (2006) (as online retailer) |
Defunct | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) (original) 2009; 15 years ago (2009) (second version) |
Successor | HomeClick |
Headquarters | Original company in San Antonio, Texas Second version in Edison, New Jersey |
Products | Home Improvement, Home and Garden |
Website | web |
Home Decor Products revived the Builders Square brand name in the mid-2000s as builderssquare.com, a comparison shopping website for home and garden products. It was headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. The website was abandoned in 2009.[6]