Popular arts-and-crafts retailer coming to North Raleigh shopping center
A national retailer known for crafts and home decor is expanding in the Triangle.
Hobby Lobby will open its second Raleigh location at Six Forks Station Shopping Center, property manager Anna Milone told The News & Observer.
The store is taking the place of Bed Bath & Beyond. The 55,600-square-foot space is between Home Depot and Food Lion, according to the property website.
Home to retailers including Target, PetSmart, Starbucks and Chick-fil-A, Six Forks Station Shopping Center is located at the southwest corner of Six Forks Road and Strickland Road.
Construction at the site is underway, but Milone said she did not know when Hobby Lobby would open.
The News & Observer reached out to Hobby Lobby on Monday around mid-day to inquire about the new location, but as of publication, the company had not responded.
Hobby Lobby has three other locations in Wake County:
- Raleigh: One store on Capital Boulevard
- Cary: Two stores on Crossroads Boulevard and Parkside Main Street
The company, which sells fabric, paints, home decor, faux plants, beads, scrapbook materials, picture frames and other items, first opened in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1972 and has since spread to hundreds of stores across 48 states.
Its Christian foundations are well-known. The chain closes all of its stores on Sunday, and Christian messages are displayed on the company’s ads, especially around holidays including Easter and Christmas.
Founder David Green, who has a net worth of more than $14 billion, according to Forbes, is a donor to He Gets Us. The organization promotes Jesus and Christianity and has made headlines in recent years for its Super Bowl commercials.
Hobby Lobby has been in the news, too. In 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned to Iraq thousands of artifacts that had been smuggled into the United States and shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
The next year, federal agents seized the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a cuneiform tablet bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Hobby Lobby purchased the tablet for $1.7 million to be displayed at the museum. In 2021, a federal judge ruled that the tablet be returned to Iraq.
This story was originally published June 24, 2024 at 2:35 PM with the headline "Popular arts-and-crafts retailer coming to North Raleigh shopping center."
