Builders Square

Builders Square
Formerly
  • Home Centers of America
  • Home Pro Warehouse
Company typeOriginally, home improvement retailer
Second version, online retailer
IndustryRetail
Founded1970; 54 years ago (1970) (original)
2006; 18 years ago (2006) (as online retailer)
Defunct1999; 25 years ago (1999) (original)
2009; 15 years ago (2009) (second version)
FateLiquidation
SuccessorHomeClick
HeadquartersOriginal company in San Antonio, Texas
Second version in Edison, New Jersey
ProductsHome Improvement, Home and Garden
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20080220003210/http://www.builderssquare.com (2008 archive)

Builders Square was a big-box home improvement retailer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.[1] A subsidiary of Kmart, its format was quite similar to The Home Depot, Menards, and Lowe's with floor space of about 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2),[2][3] and inventories in excess of 35,000 different items.[4] In 1997, a Los Angeles leveraged buyout specialist acquired Builders Square and merged it with Hechinger but the new combined company failed to thrive and all remaining stores ceased business operations by the end of 1999.[5]

Home Decor Products revived the Builders Square brand name in the mid-2000s as builderssquare.com, a comparison shopping website for home and garden products. It was headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. The website was abandoned in 2009.[6]

  1. ^ Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, 1995: Alphabetic listing, A-F, Volume 1. Gale Research Inc., 1995. 684. Retrieved on July 21, 2010. "Builders Square Inc. 9725 Datapoint Dr. San Antonio, TX 78229." ISBN 0-8103-8830-8, ISBN 978-0-8103-8830-7.
  2. ^ "Builders Square Closes 3 Stores". Sun Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. September 11, 1991. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
  3. ^ "Builders Square in Moore Plaza to close". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Corpus Christi, Texas. June 12, 1999. Archived from the original on November 2, 2006. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
  4. ^ "National grand prize winner named". The Gettysburg Times. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 4 December 1990. p. 10B. Retrieved 26 March 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Hechinger to close by year's end". Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. September 10, 1999. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
  6. ^ "[1] Archived July 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Builders Square Terms of Use" Retrieved on July 21, 2010. "Builder’s Square.com, Inc. Attn: General Counsel 47 Brunswick Avenue Edison, NJ 08817"