Hilo Home Depot Closing?

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Before the real big boxes came in, a large building supply company called "Home Improvment Warehouse" was here, the first real competition with City Mill.

They were on Nimitz on Oahu where the K-Mart is now. They boomed, it was the most sucessful store in their chain, people here loved them. It was also a true warehouse operation, and very cheap (compared to the Mom & Pops) like City Mill.

However the slick big boxes were killing them on the mainland and they went belly up, closing their ownly profitable store, Honolulu with it.

Immediatly a new Big Box called Eagle opened up and seemed to boom,but went belly up and taken over by Lowes till today.

Someone in the sam line would fill that store.