Shep’s Ace Hardware Nailing Down New Location

Shep’s Ace Hardware is coming to Marietta.

Owner Zach Stafford said the area was perfect for his third location of the hardware store in metro Atlanta.

“Everything we look for in a location, it has,” he told What Now Atlanta .

The new location is expected to open in May. Future growth is on the table, with hopes to open at least one location a year, he said.

Stafford opened an urban-format Ace Hardware in Midtown (860 Juniper St NE) in 2015 , followed by one in Grant Park (519 Memorial Dr SE) in 2017 .

Stafford comes from a family of retail operators. His great-grandfather opened a grocery store in Dalton in 1919 that, with the help of Stafford’s grandfather and father, became the largest independently owned grocery store in the city, Atlanta Business Chronicle reported in 2015 .

Founded in 1924, Ace Hardware has more than 5,000 stores, the majority of which are independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. The brand has a range of store formats, from smaller, city outposts to larger-scale ones.

Ace Hardware Corporation is based in Illinois.

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