The Home Depot Design Center benefits the community in a number of ways:

• The Design Center project cleans up a blighted tank farm.
• It meets the local demand for a closer and more convenient home improvement store. Currently there is no Home Depot in Long Beach.
• During the first five years of operation the project will generate more than $3 million in sales and property tax revenue to the city’s general fund.
• There will be more than $5 million in immediate benefits, such as traffic improvements, additional open space and cleaning up of hazardous materials.
• Both future and existing traffic impacts have been addressed. When completed, current conditions will improve by three to five percent.
• Provides nearly an acre of new parkland connecting to Channel Park, creating a buffer between Kettering Elementary School and 7th Street and providing an enhanced entry to the city.