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UER Forum > Archived US: South > Old Lowe's to be demo'd in NE AR (Viewed 190 times)
RobertB 


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Old Lowe's to be demo'd in NE AR
< on 9/29/2006 3:42 PM >
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According to this news article, a Lowe's that has stood vacant for 10 years is set to be demolished "within 30 days" to make way for a Hilton Hotel and some suitably bland chain restaurants. Having just discovered this board (and for the life of me, I don't know where I linked from), I figured it might be useful and/or interesting information.

New Hilton hotel slated
Friday, September 29, 2006
http://www.jonesbo...story.php?ID=23842

The article includes one picture of the building, a plain grey cinderblock affair with no signage and a very plain (but still blue) roof. I guess it's an old-style Lowe's from before they began paving the country with their parking lots, or something. I guess it would be pretty boring inside, but you never know.

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Re: Old Lowe's to be demo'd in NE AR
<Reply # 1 on 9/29/2006 4:25 PM >
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been there. been in it and on top of it. blah. i'm looking forward to the new construction site.

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Re: Old Lowe's to be demo'd in NE AR
<Reply # 2 on 9/30/2006 12:39 AM >
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I never have found empty big box stores that interesting. Of course, that probably was due to burnout. I took a contract job one year that involved flying out to remote areas where K-Marts were being closed. After the going out of business sale, there was an auction (or sometimes a tag sale) and all the cloths racks and crap would be sold. Invariably, people would bid on stuff, pay for it and never return to pick it up.

My job was to get a rental truck, load it all up and find something to do with it, either take it to a dump or (what I usually did) was sell it for scrap metal. I would also have to remove the PABX (if they werent sold) units and box them up for shipment back to corporate and the management would have boxed up reports, files and stuff and stacked them on a skid and I had to meet the truck driver there and help him load that and the phone systems for shipment back. Before it was all done, I had seen the insides of about a hundred closed K-mart stores, and trust me, there was NOTHING special about them.

But none the less, thanks for sharing loc information and welcome.

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Re: Old Lowe's to be demo'd in NE AR
<Reply # 3 on 9/30/2006 4:40 AM >
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Posted by minusonebit
I never have found empty big box stores that interesting. Of course, that probably was due to burnout. I took a contract job one year that involved flying out to remote areas where K-Marts were being closed.


I did just the opposite. My first "real" job after college was as an NSO (New Store Opening) Trainer for Best Buy. We went into the new box and branded it from the ground up. We put in the fixtures, merchandise, office furniture and supplies, to get the stores and their employees ready for the grand opening. I did this from 1992-1995, and the sad part is, many of the stores I opened now sit empty and rotting, already replaced by newer and bigger versions a block or two away.

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Re: Old Lowe's to be demo'd in NE AR
<Reply # 4 on 9/30/2006 8:09 PM >
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Posted by mayhem154


I did just the opposite. My first "real" job after college was as an NSO (New Store Opening) Trainer for Best Buy. We went into the new box and branded it from the ground up. We put in the fixtures, merchandise, office furniture and supplies, to get the stores and their employees ready for the grand opening. I did this from 1992-1995, and the sad part is, many of the stores I opened now sit empty and rotting, already replaced by newer and bigger versions a block or two away.


haha, you created and I destroyed. I can say that your job sounds alot more fun. After you have done one or two boxes in my job, the novelty of it wears off and its just work then.

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