Hobby Lobby Near Me

After sitting vacant since J.C. Penney closed in the spring of 2017, the 83,000-square-foot-building near the corner of Highway 371 and Glory Road in Baxter, is now divided into two stores. HomeGoods, which opened Nov. 19, 2022, has the smaller of the two portions.

Permits filed with the city of Baxter nearly a year ago noted Hobby Lobby would be taking the larger part of the store. The construction project to transform the former J.C. Penney into Hobby Lobby had a value of $2,752,689.

Hobby Lobby Near Me

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Beginning in 2009, representatives of Hobby Lobby were warned that artifacts they were purchasing were probably looted from Iraq.[27] The purchases had been made for the Museum of the Bible, which the company was sponsoring. In 2018, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York directed Hobby Lobby to return the artifacts and pay a fine of US$3,000,000. Hobby Lobby returned over 5500 items in May 2018.[28][29][30] Among these were nearly 4000 tablets supposed to be from the lost city of Irisagrig, which had been delivered to Hobby Lobby marked as "tile samples."[31]

In late March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe and state and local administrations were issuing stay-at-home orders, Hobby Lobby announced its stores would remain open. The company claimed to be an essential service as they sell fabric and school supplies.[46][47] In a reversal, in April 2020, Hobby Lobby closed all stores and furloughed nearly all employees without pay, announcing that they were "ending emergency leave pay and suspending use of company provided paid time off benefits and vacation."[48] 2351a5e196