The owners of Waterloo Gardens, a mainstay on the region’s landscaping scene for 70 years, plan to sell their Main Line flagship store in Devon and consolidate operations at its only other retail location — 12 miles away in Exton.
In a telephone interview Saturday, Bobby LeBoutillier, president of Waterloo Gardens, said the Devon garden center would be put up for sale in the next few days. No likely buyers have been identified yet, he said.
The store, at 136 Lancaster Ave., would likely remain open through the end of the year and possibly into next spring, LeBoutillier said.
The sale comes after the cancer death in October of LeBoutillier’s mother, Linda LeBoutillier, Waterloo’s chief executive officer who operated the company with her husband, Bo. They purchased it from Linda LeBoutillier’s parents in 1972. James and Anna Paolini founded the company in 1942. It celebrated its 70th anniversary in April.
LeBoutiller said Waterloo’s Exton location at 200 N. Whitford Rd. is nearly twice the size of the Devon location and offers a larger inventory.
Speak Your Mind