Home Improvement Chain To Close All MD Locations

MARYLAND — LL Flooring, formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, will shutter all 200 U.S. nationwide with closing sales starting this week, the company announced Thursday.

The abrupt closure comes after the company failed to find a buyer that could keep the doors open.

Talks to find a buyer failed to draw an offer with "the necessary financing that would maximize the value of the company," according to LL Flooring.

"It is with a heavy heart that we must let you know that we are going to begin the process of winding down LL Flooring's business and closing all of our stores," LL Flooring President and CEO Charles Tyson said in a statement. "This is not the outcome that any of us had hoped for."

The statement comes just three weeks after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, closing 94 locations across the country, CNN reported.

The remaining 200 LL Flooring locations will hold their going-out-of-business sales starting Friday, the company said.

LL Flooring representatives expect the closing sales to be held over the next 12 weeks, with closing dates varying from store to store, according to the statement.

LL Flooring has a total of nine locations in Maryland, including stores in:

• Annapolis
• Beltsville
• Edgewood
• Frederick
• Glen Burnie
• Rockville
• Timonium
• Waldorf
• Windsor Mill

To find a location near you, visit the company's website.

The company started out as Lumber Liquidators in 1994 and originally operated as a business that bought and sold excess inventory, according to the company's website.

The company expanded and currently sells about 500 varieties of hard-surface floors. At its peak, LL Flooring had more than 400 locations in 2018, CNN reported.