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O’Toole’s Garden Centers’ Littleton location to close Aug. 31

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A Littleton community institution has given its workers and patrons five months’ notice before closing down for the foreseeable future.

O’Toole’s Garden Centers’ owner Adele O’Toole announced late last month that she’ll close her family’s 31-year-old store on South Federal Boulevard on Aug. 31. The company’s locations in Westminster and Lakewood, however, will remain open.

“We’ve loved being a steward of the land and a part of the Littleton community,” O’Toole said in a release. “We’re looking for the right opportunity to rebuild in the area and hope to have another store in the next couple of years.”

The new location could be in Littleton, Englewood or “anywhere down south,” O’Toole told The Denver Post. “And it doesn’t have to be as big as Littleton store was, but it still has to have more than 23 parking spots.”

She sold O’Toole’s 5-acre property for an undisclosed amount to developer Lennar Multifamily Communities, which plans to build mixed-use residential and commercial structures next door to the garden center at the corner of West Belleview Avenue.

That proposed development includes some of O’Toole’s existing parking area and would leave the garden center with just 23 parking spots, which is not “adequate parking and space for the spring and summer crowds,” according to O’Toole.

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The garden store typically sees some 1,600 customers a day starting in May, she said.

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