The opening of a home improvement store in Fort Wayne this spring and the planned opening of another in the spring of 2004 mean one thing - more competition in the local home improvement market.Menards, which has one local home improvement store, is scheduled to open two more and still has plans for another. “All […]
When the hammer comes down on the economy, home-improvement center business often gets better. And things will notch up in that retail sector in Central New York in the coming year, good economy or bad.Industry leader The Home Depot is building its fourth store in Onondaga County - in Clay, near an emerging Target store […]
Women are steadying ladders and knocking out walls as they make inroads in what was once considered man territory: home improvement.In fact, women would rather spend their weekend leisure time improving their home than shopping at a mall or cooking, according to a survey conducted last year for Home Depot by Yankelovich Partners.From 1989 to […]
Home-ownership demographics are attracting home-improvement retailers to the Summit City like bees to honey.Two massive building-supply stores, Home Depot and Menards, have opened in Fort Wayne during the last six months, doubling the city’s number of big-box home-improvement retailers. At least four more big boxes are on the drawing boards for Fort Wayne. But that […]