Builders Square II stores cost about $2 a square foot more to build, Mielke said, but the company projects a 28 percent increase in the rate of return over existing stores.

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 Builders Square store manager said most of the Central Florida stores have 50 to 60 employees. Hechinger will continue to operate 117 home-improvement stores in other markets.

Builders Square Inc., a San Antonio, Texas-based subsidiary of Kmart Corp., operates 184 stores in 24 states and Puerto Rico; the nearest to Allentown is in Lansdale.

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 ...

Builders Square Inc., a San Antonio, Texas-based subsidiary of Kmart Corp., operates 184 stores in 24 states and Puerto Rico. The nearest to Allentown is in Lansdale.

Builders Square also is shutting its store in Orange and four stores in other states. The company earlier this summer closed its Farmington store. A company ...

Builders Square will close its home improvement store in Farmington in August, leaving about 100 employees at least temporarily out of work, company officials said Wednesday.Kmart Corp., which ...