Builders Square will close its Hampton store because it is too small to accommodate the company’s plans to expand its stores. Jeanne Janes, a spokeswoman for the Texas-based home improvement ...

Back in the early 1980s, family-owned hardware stores dotted Chicagoland, selling everything from extension cords to plumbing supplies. Then came the big boys, such as Handy Andy and Builders Squar… ...

Builders Square’s operating income in fiscal 1991 was $74 million on revenue of $2 billion. That is about 2 percent of the hardware and building materials business.

Home Depot has solidified its hold over the South Florida hardware and building supplies market by snapping up six Builders Square stores in South Florida. The Atlanta-based chain plans to operate ...

Kmart president and CEO Samuel G. Leftwich predicted that within six years, HCA — which soon changed its name to Builders Square — would be a 100-store, $1 billion per year operation.

Since 1990 a grocery store, drug store, hardware and an Ames discount store all closed, ... All three have been moved. The new Builders Square is scheduled to open in the fall.

Builders Square, a subsidiary of Kmart, may begin construction of a large hardware store in South Whitehall Township within the next two months, a lawyer for the New York-based developer said last ...

The parent company of Builders Square is expected to announce store closings Wednesday that could include some of its 16 Chicago-area shops. Store managers in several Builders Square stores said ...

A Home Depot exec promised that within the next 12 months a third store would open “within a Troy Aikman pass” of that just-opened Builders Square II. The end was near. In 1996, the 168-store ...