Construction Begins on Home Depot Store

Home Depot, the home-improvement chain, began building a store this week on an 11-acre site on Lincoln Avenue, boosting the city’s redevelopment effort.

Home Depot plans a 105,700-square-foot building with a 24,000-square-foot garden facility in the 5700-5800 block of Lincoln. The store is scheduled to open next summer.

The chain acquired five lots at the site, the largest of them formerly a car dealership, for nearly $7 million.

“It’s a terrific thing for Cypress,” said Mayor Tom Carroll. “It’s the start of something good for Lincoln Avenue that we have been working on for a long time.”