Home Improvement Chain Closes 3 Hudson Valley Locations

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — Efforts to find a buyer for a beleaguered home improvement chain spell the end for its stores in the Hudson Valley.

LL Flooring, formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, announced the closing of 200 locations across the United States, including three stores in the Hudson Valley.

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, according to CNN.

The remaining 200 LL Flooring locations will hold their going-out-of-business sales starting Friday, Sept. 6, the company said.

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

LL Flooring has a total of 3 locations in the Hudson Valley, including stores in:

• Yonkers
• Middletown
• Wappingers Falls

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.

With reporting from Patch's Miranda Ceja.