The Floor & Decor store at 240 East Sandford Blvd. in Mount Vernon opened with a ribbon-cutting on April 16, in advance of a week-long celebration of the store’s opening scheduled for April 23 through April 29. Floor & Decor specializes in hard-surface flooring for homeowners and professionals. The Mount Vernon store’s staff of about 50 full- and part-timers is led by Sarah Chavez, who has the title chief executive merchant.
Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard cut the ribbon to officially open the store. She expressed excitement and pride at having the retailer in the city, having previously described it as “one of the nation’s premiere flooring companies. It is the Costco and BJs of the flooring industry in the country. In Mount Vernon we’re continuing to build our business community.”
At the ribbon-cutting, Patterson-Howard described Floor & Decor as offering “great opportunities to do home renovations, bathrooms, living rooms, floors, kitchens, whatever your needs are. They also have a design center and they have a pro shop so you can come in and if you are from novice to a pro you can receive services that you need.”
Floor & Decor operates more than 270 warehouse-format stores and five design studios nationwide. The Mount Vernon site formerly had been a Stop & Shop supermarket. The overall property covers 318,293 square feet near the intersection of East Sandford Boulevard and Fulton Street and is in Commercial Business District zoning. The one-story building occupies 109,572 square feet.
“Bringing Floor & Decor to Mount Vernon is an exciting milestone for our team,” said Chavez. “For more than 25 years, we’ve focused on making quality, trend-forward hard surface flooring accessible to everyone, and we’re proud to extend that commitment to this community. We look forward to serving our new customers and helping bring their ideas to life.”
During its opening promotion known as “7 Days of Deals,” the store will be featuring discounts, giveaways, installation demonstrations from leading industry brands, and the chance to win a $1,000 Floor & Decor gift card each day. A ribbon-cutting in partnership with the Bronxville Chamber of Commerce and the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce is scheduled for April 23 at 10 a.m.
Founded in 2000, Floor & Decor is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The owner of the Mount Vernon property is MDC Coastal 1 LLC, which received site plan approval from the city re-tenant the Stop & Shop supermarket space.
