September 14, 2011

Milestones Icon: McGuckin Hardware

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Bill McGuckin opened the doors to his hardware store in 1955 with four employees and four departments.

Now, more than 50 years later, the Boulder hardware store has 285 employees and 18 departments. The staple green vests employees wear and the packed isles with nearly anything a hardware geek can imagine have become a Boulder icon.

The hardware store was located in a less than 2,000-square-foot space located where Tokyo Joe’s is now. In 1972, it moved to a larger space where Boulder Ski Deals currently sits.

But since 1978, McGuckin Hardware has remained in its 60,000-square-foot building and still has the reputation…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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