OSH says Gilroy store is staying

Officials with Orchard Supply Hardware said last week that they
have no plans to move or close the company’s store on 10th Street
in Gilroy.
GILROY – Officials with Orchard Supply Hardware said last week that they have no plans to move or close the company’s store on 10th Street in Gilroy.

“The rumor that we are closing or moving our store is just that – it’s nothing more than a rumor, and I have no idea where it came from,” said Woody Gray, vice president of stores for the hardware and home improvement chain. “We have no plans to move our store or to close that store.”

A new Lowe’s Home Improvement Center store opened this month adjacent to a new Costco in the Newman Development Group’s Pacheco Pass regional shopping center at U.S. 101 and Highway 152. The possibility that OSH would move to Morgan Hill’s Kmart building on Dunne Avenue rose during public comment on the Newman center at a recent Gilroy City Council meeting.

Besides Lowe’s, Gilroy also has a Home Depot warehouse-style home improvement store and an ACE Hardware store. But city economic development officials have said they believe the existing OSH can remain successful here.

Asked if OSH has ever considered a location in Morgan Hill, Gray said the company is “always looking at other places.

“One place we looked at in the past and probably will (again) in the future is Morgan Hill,” he said. “But there’s no plan to move (from) Gilroy or to close (in) Gilroy.”