Lowe's files Eugene store site plans.Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Lowe's, the nation's second-largest home improvement retailer, has filed preliminary development plans to join an already crowded field in the Eugene-Springfield lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to and home products market. The North Carolina-based chain submitted a request Tuesday for a development assistance meeting with Eugene's Planning and Development Department. The request outlines plans for a 139,000-square-foot Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse at 4650 W. 11th Ave., and seeks city input on issues including parking, zoning and natural resources. Jennifer Smith There are at least six prominent individuals named Jennifer Smith:
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His office - Delta Management Co. - declined to answer questions about the Lowe's project. "Lowe's has not made any specific announcements concerning your area," Smith said from the home improvement retailer's offices in North Wilkesboro, N.C. "I can confirm that Lowe's is certainly evaluating additional opportunities in Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. , as part of our nationwide expansion plans." The company currently has 11 stores in Oregon - five in the Portland area, two in the Salem area and single stores in McMinnville, Bend, Roseburg and Medford. There are more than 1,150 Lowe's nationwide, and Smith said that the chain will add another 150 to 160 stores in 2006. The West 11th store - if it is approved by the city - would be about a mile from a new Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box store that is being completed just off West 11th at Seneca Road and West Seventh Place, and about four miles from a Jerry's Home Improvement Center store at Highway 99 and Belt Line Road. Jerry's also has a store at 28th and Olympic streets in Springfield, and Home Depot has an existing store at Green Acres Green Acre is a conference facility in Eliot, Maine, in the United States. It was founded by Sarah Farmer in 1894. After Sarah Farmer became a Bahá'í in 1900, many Bahá'í speakers were invited, including Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in 1903, `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912 and Mírzá Road and Delta Highway The Delta Highway is a short limited-access freeway in Eugene, Oregon, United States, linking downtown Eugene with the Beltline Highway, northern Eugene and the Riverridge golf course to the north. in Eugene. Lowe's has long been rumored to be interested in the Eugene-Springfield market, and competes head-to-head with Home Depot in many cities around the country. No meeting with city staff has yet been scheduled as a result of the request submitted by Lowe's on Tuesday. The preliminary plans call for two additional buildings - 12,000 square feet and 3,576 square feet - for other retail operations, in addition to the Lowe's building. Sadri's property was briefly mentioned as a possible new location for the Eugene Water & Electric Board, should the utility sell its current location to Triad Hospitals Triad Hospitals is a Fortune 500 company based in Plano, Texas. It operates 54 hospitals in the United States. In February 2007 it received a merger/buyout offer from another company, and then in March 2007 it received a superior merger/buyout offer from Community Health Systems of , but negotiations for a sale of the property broke down. Joe Mosley can be reached at 338-2384 or jmosley@guard net.com. |
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