Lowe’s Canada opens second Windsor location

About 75 full-time jobs and 80 part-time seasonal jobs have been created with the opening of a new Lowe’s store in east Windsor.

Lowe’s invested more than $21.6 million to transform the former RONA store at 7350 Catherine Street into the second Lowe’s store in the city and the 68^th in the country.

The 117,600 square-foot store includes 23,800 square feet dedicated to a garden centre.

Local dignitaries and company executives were on hand for the Oct. 18^th grand opening.

The company, which employs 28,000 people across the country, donated $5,000 to the Street Help Homeless Centre of Windsor.

The money will be used to restock the food bank and support