Hechinger/Builders Square/Home Quarters

[store215]

There are a bunch of 84 lumbers around here...I think their headquarters is in PA or NJ.

[StuckeysFanatic]

So updating my profile at greenfieldonline.com led me to this question and I find it amazing that Builders Square was on there.

[Ameskid]

I was reading the book "Dave Barry Is From Mars And Venus" (I love Dave Barry) and in one chapter, he makes fun of Builder's Square. Here's the excerpt:
"......Builders Square has a commercial wherein the singer bleats this hyperpatriotic song that makes it sound as though the people shopping there are actually building America, whereas in fact they are looking for replacement toilet parts.":bum::bum:

[richway987]

my aunt worked at the HQ in matthews, NC in the early 90's, she got her husband's brother a few ceiling fans when she worked there

[C. Fontaine]

Haha, I had to do one of those polls a few months ago and I couldn't believe it, Ames was still on it!

[Crawford]

I don't recall any of these stores being located nearby. We started off with Grossman's and Somerville lumber. Home Depot moved in and pretty much that was it. Couple of Lowes have popped up here and there.

[C3Nostalgia]

The West Mifflin BS is now a Burlington Coat Factory.

[rjstheiv]

The Burlington was formally a Hechenger...The old Builder's Square was up in Century Square where Levin's is.

[C3Nostalgia]

Originally posted by rjstheiv
The Burlington was formally a Hechenger...The old Builder's Square was up in Century Square where Levin's is.

Your're right.  I just get them confused because my grandfather would always use the names interchangeably.  I would go with him to both frequently because he was always building stuff or fixing stuff, and there wasn't a Lowe's or Home Depot around at the time and he hated 84Lumber because they tried to gip him out of $100 one time.

[Mobil]

I saw an HQ on Groceteria in a former J.M. Fields. HQ was founded by the same company as OW Office Warehouse which became OfficeMax in 1992.

[Zayre88]

A vacant HQ in Norwood, MA from MSN maps bird's eye view.

[videogamer75]

Originally posted by Mobil
I saw an HQ on Groceteria in a former J.M. Fields. HQ was founded by the same company as OW Office Warehouse which became OfficeMax in 1992.

It didn't become OfficeMax, it was acquired by OfficeMax, which already existed and was founded in 1988. I wonder what their early stores were like.

[Mobil]

Originally posted by videogamer75

Originally posted by Mobil
I saw an HQ on Groceteria in a former J.M. Fields. HQ was founded by the same company as OW Office Warehouse which became OfficeMax in 1992.

It didn't become OfficeMax, it was acquired by OfficeMax, which already existed and was founded in 1988. I wonder what their early stores were like.

I know, I should have worded it better. Their stores have not changed much since the beginning,  like the one near me that closed in 2006.

[MikeRa]

The Builders Square that was at King of Prussia, PA was demolished and replaced by REG United Artists King of Prussia Stadium 16 and IMAX Theatre.

The Builders Square that was in langhorne, PA (In a former late 1970s Woolco building) was replaced by Burlington Coat Factory (also in the same Woolco building).  i am not sure if bCF is still in Langhorne.

[jmcnamara96]

Building 19 in nashua nh was builders square

[Ameskid]

Sorry to gravedig, but I just found this picture of the #17 HQ/Builders Square Chevy that Darrell Waltrip drove in 1998.



Image credit: Jayski

[jmcnamara96]

my dad painted the one in manchester the bright green it was till walmart got it sames with the one in newionton nh

[TRJ_22487]

Austin, Texas
No idea what year it was taken

[patk]

heres an old Hechinger nail box form 1985!

[Kmart4life]

I know there is probably a thread for this chain but I found something via wikipedia earlier. www.builderssquare.com
Check it out it is a blast from the past. ;D

[JimSawhill]

I know there is probably a thread for this chain but I found something via wikipedia earlier. www.builderssquare.com
Check it out it is a blast from the past. ;D

The Builder's Square in Manchester is now the Showcase Cinemas

[ynkeesfn82]

Showcase Cinemas got bought out by Rave. All the theaters are now called Rave Motion Pictures - Berlin, Southington, North Haven, and Manchester. Even after Showcase had made the Manchester theatre on Redstone Street a fancy place called Cinema Du Lux.

[Ameskid]

Former Builders Square in Florence, KY. After closing, it was an Old Time Pottery store and is currently a (huge) church.

Former Old Time Pottery, Florence, KY by harvestmanman, on Flickr

Oddly enough, this same church operates another location in Norwood, OH in a former HQ.

[Ameskid]

And speaking of Florence, Kentucky, there was a HQ there as well.  It is now split between a Dick's Sporting Goods and a Christmas Tree Shops (formerly HomeGoods).  Photo courtesy of Kenton County Public Library.

[MikeRa]

The Builders Square that was at King of Prussia, PA was demolished and replaced by REG United Artists King of Prussia Stadium 16 and IMAX Theatre.

The Builders Square that was in langhorne, PA (In a former late 1970s Woolco building) was replaced by Burlington Coat Factory (also in the same Woolco building).  i am not sure if bCF is still in Langhorne.

There was also a Hechinger in Langhorne, PA that was demolished and replaced by a medical facility.  Another Hechinger was remodeled into a Brunswick Zone bowlling alley, and one at Knights and Woodhaven Road in Philadelphia, Pa that is now split between 2nd Avenue Value Stores and Big Lots

[Hudsons81]

Southgate, Michigan had both Builder's Square and HQ.

Builder's Square anchored the Southtowne Crossing Shopping Center at Eureka and Dix-Toledo. This one became an HQ.

HQ was at the Northline exit on I-75 next to Sam's Club.

Both locations closed in 1999. The Southtowne location remained vacant until the entire center was torn down for a Walmart, while the I-75/Northline location is still vacant today, in 2015.

[Zayre88]

Former Home Quarters in Bangor, Maine. Now a Burlington Coat Factory. The partially covered lumberyard is still there but empty. Note the marks still visible on the front wall showing where the original HQ front canopy was.