Home Depot Eyeing Former Home Base for Design Store

BEAVERTON, OR-Home Depot wants to buy or lease the 103,000-sf former Home Base building at 110th and Canyon Road in Beaverton for the Northwest’s first Expo Design Center. The building is located across the street from a new Home Depot.

The building owner is Lester M. Entin Associates of Clifton, NJ. The owner of the company did not return a Thursday phone call seeking comment. Home Depot spokesman John Simley tells GlobeSt.com there is no signed agreement between the two companies, but that if an agreement is signed, the plan would be to start remodeling the building next spring and open the design store a year later. The store would occupy about 80,000 sf of the building; a complementary retailer likely would fill the remaining space.