Home Depot, after protests, drops plans for east Manatee store

  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • | 10:45 a.m. September 12, 2024
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Dan Creek and Lin Harvard stand on the corner of Lorraine Road and Rangeland Parkway on Sept. 3 to protest a possible Home Depot.
Dan Creek and Lin Harvard stand on the corner of Lorraine Road and Rangeland Parkway on Sept. 3 to protest a possible Home Depot.
Photo by Lesley Dwyer
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The last thing Esplanade Golf and Country Club resident Lin Harvard says she wanted to see from the fifth fairway of her east Manatee County home golf course was a Home Depot. 

“It’s expensive to live here,” she says. “This just wasn’t what I was expecting to move into my backyard.” 

 

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