Homesense filling andThat! location near Rehoboth
Renovations are underway to turn the former andThat! store outside Rehoboth Beach into a Homesense.
Brent Reed of Reed Ventures, a partner in the running of the center, confirmed that Homesense, a discount home furnishing store, is taking the place of andThat!
The demolition of andThat! fixtures and equipment has begun, said Reed. Construction on the new Homesense will start right after that’s done, he said.
Homesense originated in Canada in 2001, expanded into Europe in 2008, and then into the United States in 2017. The business is part of the TJX Companies corporation, which also runs Marshalls, HomeGoods, T.J. Maxx, Sierra, Winners and T.K. Maxx. The T.J. Maxx directly beside the new Homesense opened in October. In addition to Homesense and T.J. Maxx, the shopping center is also home to PetSmart and Aldi. Up until 2017, a Kmart occupied all of the 56,700-square-foot building.
According to the Homesense website, there are about 60 stores in the United States, primarily on the East Coast, from Massachusetts south to Florida. This will be the first Homesense in Sussex County. Another is located at the Christiana Fashion Center.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014 and has the local parking passes to prove it. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories, random stories on subjects he finds interesting and has a column called ‘Choppin’ Wood’ that runs every other week. Additionally, Chris moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes during daylight hours that are jammed with coins, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design. People are often surprised to learn that Chris was able to convince someone to marry him and, more surprisingly, convince that person to then have kids with him.
