The new Home Depot on Spokane’s South Hill is nearing completion and is expected to open this summer, says Home Depot director of public affairs Sarah McDonald. 

The construction timeline remains on schedule and within the projected budget of $17.8 million, McDonald says.

“June is our target date,” says McDonald.  

The home building supply store project is located at 4515 S. Regal on Spokane's South Hill. The 13-acre property is near the southeast corner of 44th Avenue and Regal Street and can be accessed from both Regal and 44th. 

The project includes the construction of a 108,000-square-foot building and a 26,000-square-foot garden center. The store will have a loading dock, vehicle and equipment rental areas, and about 500 parking stalls. 

MG2 Corp., of McLean, Virginia, is the architect on the project.  

Derek Burns, senior project manager at Little Rock, Arkansas-based Bailey Construction & Consulting LLC, says Bailey Construction demolished the former 100,400-square-foot Shopko retail store previously located at the site in July 2024. Bailey Construction also is the contractor for the construction of the new Home Depot store.

A State Environmental Policy Act checklist submitted by Fresno, California-based engineering company Lars Andersen & Associates Inc., shows additional landscaping improvements will add two stormwater basins and remove about 70 trees from the site. 

Atlanta-based Home Depot USA Inc. purchased the property for $10 million in June 2024 from SHS Building LLC, a Phoenix-based real estate investment company, according to state tax records. 

Upon completion, the store will employ close to 200 workers.

Home Depot canceled similar plans in 2008 for a new store and garden center southeast of the old Shopko building due to objections by some neighborhood residents and building restrictions that limited the footprint of a big-box store to 100,000 square feet at the site. 

—Tina Sulzle