By Lee Shappell | InMaricopa
The big orange box may bring with it a big green light for development in Maricopa.
Atlanta-based Home Depot, the world’s largest home-improvement chain with more than 2,300 stores in North America, is coming to Maricopa, the city confirmed this week. The store, expected to be a full-size, roughly 100,000-square-foot facility, will be built at Stonegate and Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway.
While it fills a need for tens of thousands of residents, who have had to drive to Chandler or Casa Grande to its next-closest stores, it likely will mean much more to the city in the long term, City Manager Rick Horst said.
“Other things are likely to accompany it from just the fact we announced it,” Horst said. “Home Depot is a significant retailer for us and, of course, they will attract others. If you look around the greater Phoenix area and you see one of these big-boxes pop up, a lot of other businesses like to sit next to them. They like to sit next to each other.”
