BEFORE: Lowe's storefront in 2010
BEFORE: A closer look at Lowe's store front in 2010
AFTER: Lowe's old store front is now a outside sales area.
Notice the sign's location? Before the redesign, it stood to one side of the buildings. The building behind it and the greenhouses in the foreground are new additions.
BEFORE: Site of today's gift shop
This trellis structure was temporarily replaced with a narrow building that became the original gift shop. That building was replaced by today's larger building, which houses the gift shop Wild Thistle.
BEFORE: The side plant yard is where today's entrance, new greenhouses, and gift store are located.
AFTER: Today's entrance and parking lot.
AFTER: Inside the new greenhouse
BEFORE: Lowe's smaller gift department in 2014
AFTER: The much larger gift shop, Wild Thistle
AFTER: Different types of lighting highlight merchandise in Wild Thistle
AFTER: The new checkout area
AFTER: The florist work area is visible to shoppers
Jeff Griff in the new greenhouse 2016
A redesign at Lowe’s Greenhouses in Chagrin Falls, OH, has been a long time coming, owner Jeff Griff admits.
“I tend to be very conservative, but if you wait too long, it can hurt you,” he says.
It took fellow garden retailers in his GAP Group and creating a solid business plan with his consultant before he committed to the project. (The GAP Group is made up of garden retailers from across the U.S. who work together to improve their businesses under the guidance of Ian Baldwin.)
Keep an eye out for the full story about how Griff went about planning, financing, and executing the rebuild in a future edition of Greenhouse Grower RETAILING. In the meantime, take a look at how much the redesign transformed Lowe’s Greenhouse.
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Carol Miller is editor of Today's Garden Center. You can eMail her at clmiller@meistermedia.com. See all author stories here.