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Home Depot, an Atlanta-based home center retailer, is hunting for sites to park its warehouse-style stores at eight locations in Greater Cleveland.
Kelly McHugh, a Home Depot spokeswoman, said the company has sites "tied up," or under its control, in Brooklyn, Maple Heights, North Olmsted and Strongsville. Home Depot also is pursuing sites in Cleveland, Mayfield Heights and Mentor.
The list doesn't include a previously announced Cleveland Heights store that Winmar Corp. of Seattle is wooing for its makeover of the Severance Town Center. Jerry Dressman, Severance general manager, said the parties are in final lease negotiations for Home Depot to occupy a site at the western end of the mall.
Ms. McHugh wouldn't specify site locations. However, Home Depot's list includes previously reported sites in Brooklyn on Brookpark Road near Tiedeman Road and in North Olmsted on Brookpark just west of Columbia Road.
As an indication the Home Depot invasion is about to begin in earnest, Home Depot officials appeared last Thursday, Jan. 30, at Maple Heights City Council, where the company is about to give venerable Southgate USA in Maple Heights a breath of fresh air.
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