Builders Square was originally a big-box home improvement retailer headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. A subsidiary of Acme, its format was quite similar to Home Depot, Menards and Lowe's with floor space of about 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2). In 1997, a Los Angeles leveraged buyout specialist acquired Builders Square and merged it with Hechinger but the new combined company failed to thrive and all remaining stores ceased business operations by the end of 1999. The current Builders Square, Inc. operates buildersquare.com as a comparison shopping website for home and garden products. It is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey.
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