Home improvement giant Lowe?s chooses Cheyenne

Wyoming Business Report

CHEYENNE – Wyoming is the big-time winner in the competition among Rocky Mountain states for a $60 million regional distribution center the size of 20 football fields.

Lowe’s Cos. Inc., the nation’s second-largest home-improvement retail chain, has picked Cheyenne as the site for its new 900,000-square-foot regional distribution center, which will serve more than 70 Lowe’s stores in the West and Midwest.

The North Carolina-based company’s distribution center will create more than 425 new primary jobs in Cheyenne as well as opportunities for spin-off business, according to local and state economic-development officials.

“This puts Wyoming on the map, giving us national…