The Home Depot plans to build megastore in Granada Hills

The Home Depot's Ted Decker with 16830 Devonshire St
The House Depot’s Ted Decker with 16830 Devonshire St (Google Maps, Dwelling Depot, Getty)

The House Depot desires to raze a well known movie theater and a dozen corporations in Granada Hills to construct a major-box retail store total of applications and lumber. The neighbors aren’t pleased.

The Atlanta-based mostly home improvement chain has submitted designs to build a 108,000-sq.-foot retail outlet and a 28,000-square-foot backyard heart in the North Hills Searching Middle at 16830 Devonshire Avenue, the Los Angeles Day-to-day News noted.

It would require demolishing a Regency Theaters and 12 firms, together with a lender, a Baja Fresh new and a O.Tofu Home & Pankko Tonkatsu restaurant.

The 9-acre procuring middle contains an present 95,600-sq.-foot business center, a 40,000-sq.-foot, 2,400-seat movie theater and a floor parking lot.

An affiliate of House Depot purchased the Regency Theatres making at Devonshire and Balboa Boulevard previous October for $37 million.

The firm has submitted an software with L.A. city planners of its intent to create a Dwelling Depot keep and garden middle, which would demand demolishing various firms in the northeast facet of the searching middle, according to city documents.

The new House Depot would include things like parking for 456 automobiles and 33 bicycles.

Neighborhood groups are anxious about a solitary organization replacing quite a few corporations that provide the north San Fernando Valley, such as the well-known motion picture theater.

They also expressed worry about targeted traffic and the absence of general public input for the venture.

“It appears it is just a accomplished offer without having any enter from the local community,” Dave Beauvais, former president of the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council, explained to the Day by day Information. He stated the searching middle was “a awful put to place a large components retail store.”

“My problems would be, is it a superior match in that purchasing center?” he explained. “You’re replacing a bunch of smaller retail shops and the theater — wherever most of the visitors was (going) on evenings and weekends — with a large 140,000-square-foot retail store. It is going to attract targeted visitors from all over the north Valley.”

An owner of a making up coming to Regency Theaters claimed he’d already employed a law firm to sue Dwelling Depot. Home Depot did not return requests for remark.

– Dana Bartholomew