Plans are moving forward quickly for the opening of a new 137,000-square-foot Home Depot outlet in Buckeye, Arizona on an 11.1-acre site that the giant retailer purchased last year for $7.7 million,
The project will be a part of the new 410,000-square-foot Buckeye Commons shopping center in the 1000 block of N. Verrado Way, a retail hub that includes a Costco store and Dick’s Sporting Goods outlet.
The Buckeye Home Depot is part of a larger expansion effort on the part of the Atlanta-based home improvement chain which currently has more than 4,300 stores in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, among other places.
That effort is seeing the planning and building of a dozen Home Depot locations representing more than 1.6 million square feet of new store space. The new outlets are all being built in the Sunbelt, with a particular emphasis on Texas, which will see four new stores in Celina, Dallas, Leander, and Penitas.
Additional locations have been announced for cities in Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah, and California.
The expansion project comes after the retailer earlier this year delivered an earnings statement showing that its final quarter 2025 sales stood at $38.2 billion, with total sales for the entire year coming in at just under $165 billion. The year also saw the chain open ten new locations.
Founded in early 1978, Home Depot built its first three stores the following year and opened a total of 100 stores in the next decade. By the year 2005, the chain was up to 2,000 locations, adding another 300 or so in the last two decades.
Through the years the company has seen its average store size increase from 60,000 square feet to slightly in excess of 120,000 square feet.
April 28, 2026
By Garry Boulard
1979 Home Depot ad
