The opening of a long-awaited Home Depot on a redeveloped corner of the Fashion Square mall just north of Charlottesville has been delayed.
When the Atlanta-based home improvement retailer announced plans to open a Charlottesville-area location back in November, it originally planned to unlock the doors this past Thursday.
But, a Home Depot spokesman contacted The Daily Progress that day with an updated launch date: Aug. 28.
Home Depot is taking over the real estate formerly occupied by a Sears department store before it was shuttered in March 2019.
Home Depot purchased the vacant real estate along with other parts of the mall for $1.762 million in September 2022 and announced plans to invest an additional $26 million to demolish and redevelop the property into a 134,262-square-foot home improvement store and garden center. The redevelopment is expected to create more than 100 new jobs and also will include resolving any “contaminated conditions” remaining from the former automotive center that once operated there, according to Albemarle County, which has hailed the redevelopment as bringing new life to what was a dying 1980-vintage indoor mall.
“We are eager to welcome Home Depot to our area,” Albemarle County Chairman Jim Andrews said in an August 2024 statement. “This public-private partnership jumpstarts the first development with speed, cleans up environmental contamination present at the site, and significantly contributes to transportation connectivity.”
As part of an agreement struck between Home Depot and Albemarle County, the retailer will work to boost the economic prosperity of the surrounding area by actively seeking new buyers for the building that once housed the adjacent Red Lobster seafood restaurant and transfer the right-of-way for the realignment of nearby Hillsdale Drive.
Source: www.dailyprogress.com
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