A grand open date has been tentatively set for the new Lowe’s under construction on State Road 54 just east of Land O’ Lakes Boulevard.
A spokeswoman for the company confirmed to The Laker/Lutz News that the 152,000-square-foot store will officially open its doors during the last week of March. It’s being built on a 42-acre tract of land across from the Village Lakes Shopping Center, and will bring 125 jobs to the area.
The new store will have a 103,000-square-foot sales floor and a 31,300-square-foot garden center, according to the site plan submitted to Pasco County officials earlier this year. It also will have enough parking for nearly 525 cars.
Its primary entrance will be on the east side of the property, creating an intersection with Village Lakes.
The North Carolina company purchased the land between Winter Quarters Pasco RV Park and the Pasco County fire station there in 2005 for $2.7 million, and originally had hoped to open the store by 2009. However, Lowe’s abandoned those plans in 2011, with reports at the time the company would try to sell the land.
Instead, Lowe’s kept the property, and broke ground on construction earlier this year.
The Land O’ Lakes location is the third Lowe’s in Pasco County, joining a location at 7921 Gall Blvd., in Zephyrhills, and at 8312 Little Road in Port Richey. However, the closest store to this new location is in New Tampa, at 6201 Commerce Palms Drive in Hillsborough County.
