Home Depot gives up on Sunland-Tujunga

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Kevin Roderick • January 7 2009 6:26 PM

Looks like the former K-Mart store on Foothill Boulevard will stay empty. Home Depot has given up trying to get approval — over concerted neighborhood opposition — to open a branch. It also will drop its lawsuit against the city and apparently is hoping to sub-lease the site. Home Depot had been trying since 2004 to get in there, sometimes controversially.

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