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City Welcomes Its First 'Big Orange' Store

DETROIT-Home Depot has converted a former Kmart store to open its first location in the city. The 113,456-sf former Super Kmart is at Seven Mile and Meyers.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on March 11, 2004

DETROIT-Home Depot has opened its first store in the city of Detroit. The nation’s leading home improvement chain converted a 113,456-sf former Super Kmart store into what Home Depot says will be the first of two Detroit locations to open in 2004.

The new store is at Seven Mile and Meyers and has approximately 130 employees.

“Detroit is alive and well,” Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says. “We’re being reborn right in front of our eyes. While the economy is in a slump and people are losing jobs, we have 100-plus people working in our neighborhood.”

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