Office Depot Planning Evergreen Center Store

Thu., March 21, 1996

By Ward Sanderson wards@spokesman.com

Office Depot will open its first Valley store this summer at Evergreen Center.

County records show the 30,513-square foot computer and office supply store will sit west of the Safeway store built last year at Sprague and Evergreen.

In December, Boise-based Hawkins-Smith Development announced Office Depot planned to build a store there. Hawkins-Smith is leasing the space to the Delray Beach, Fla.-based company. But until recently, Office Depot had not confirmed its plans to open a store in the Valley.

Star Henderson, a manager at the Office Depot on North Division, said the Valley store will open June 24.

The Valley store, like the North Side spot, will have more of a retail look than traditional Office Depot stores do. Older stores like the one at 1003 E. Third have concrete floors and a warehouse-like design.

Project manager Jim Winger of McKinley Contracting said the new store will still be big and wide open, but will feature white, vinyl-floored shopping aisles and some carpeting in employee and cashier areas. It will also have a more colorful appearance inside and a new, red logo out front.

The north wall of the new building has been already been raised.

PETsMART, an Arizona-based pet supply chain, announced in December it would open a 26,000-square-foot store on the other side of Safeway. Ken Benoit, leasing manager of Hawkins-Smith, said that store should open June 8. The walls are up on all sides of the PETsMART building, but it still lacks a roof.

Mike Liimakka of J-U-B Engineers, the firm handling the site engineering for both Office Depot and PETsMART, said both stores will be recessed from Sprague and each will share a wall with the existing grocery store.

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