FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Columbia, MD, Sept. 2, 2022 -- Clarks Ace Hardware-Columbia is celebrating its grand opening with a Labor Day weekend event beginning Friday, Sept. 2, through Monday, Sept. 5.
America’s most celebrated “helpful place” is having a grand opening beginning this weekend in Columbia, Maryland. Clarks Ace Hardware-Columbia brings the company’s unique blend of personal, knowledgeable and helpful service, paired with quality home maintenance expertise and products, to Columbia residents. The store is located at 8895 McGaw Road, and standard operating hours are Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
"Grand opening weekend is almost here! Join us as we celebrate this Labor Day weekend," the company wrote in a Sept. 1 Facebook post.
The weekend-long celebration is focused around Saturday's events.
"One week til our grand opening block party! Stop by next Saturday, Sept. 3, between 10 a.m and 4 pm. You don’t want to miss Aya Blaine from The Chainsaw Chix, performances, competition, sculptors. She will be carving wood sculptures with her STIHL chainsaw at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m.!" according to an Aug. 27 Facebook post. "Sales! Grill demos with the Big Green Egg. Giveaways! Lunch visits from 410 BBQ Food Truck and Kona Ice of Howard County."
Customers can come in and and take advantage of sales and exclusive offers beginning Friday, Sept. 2, with $10 propane refills. Saturday, Clarks Ace Hardware is offering free Ace buckets to the first 200 customers, plus 20% off and a chance to enter and win a Weber Spirit II E210 Gas Grill valued at $459. Sunday's exclusive offer is 50% off any one regular-price item under $30, while Monday brings the chance for customers to get 50% off one dog wash.
Clarks Ace Hardware is a local family-owned business that started 175 years ago in 1845 when John L. Clark opened Clarks Farm Supplies in Ellicott City, Maryland. The Clark family is now the third-oldest family hardware store in America. Clark Ace Hardware is currently operated and owned by Margaret Clark as the seventh generation to run the family business.
Clarks Ace Hardware-Columbia offers specialty services, including screen repair, sharpening, glass and acrylic cutting, in-store lock services, key cutting, auto key programming, lamp repair, small engine repair, pipe cutting and threading, and is a STIHL Certified Repair Center.
Clarks Ace Hardware-Columbia also offers top-selling brands like Toro, Traeger, Vermont Castings, Ariens, Yeti, Benjamin Moore, Big Green Egg, Weber, FoxFarm, Regency Fireplace Products, Magnolia Home and Mendota. Other areas of store focuses include its garden center, hardware, lighting and electrical, plumbing, power tools and paint.
Ace Hardware is the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the world, with more than 5,600 locally owned and operated hardware stores in approximately 70 countries. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, Ace and its subsidiaries operate an expansive network of distribution centers in the U.S. and have distribution capabilities in China, Panama and the United Arab Emirates.
Since 1924, Ace has become a part of local communities around the world and is known as "the place with the helpful hardware folks." For more information, visit AceHardware.com or Newsroom.AceHardware.com.
