Ace Hardware store planned for Ammen Building

Boulder will be getting a new, second hardware store in the form of an Ace Hardware on Main Street, but because of pandemic-related supply shortages, it’s unclear when the store will open.

The forthcoming store, located in the former Ammen Building at 104 S. Main St., is owned by Whitehall resident Bridget Morse, who has owned and operated an Ace store in Whitehall for 33 years. Morse bought the 4,640-square-foot building in early 2021.

“We had been looking for a second location for quite a while, and I always had thought of Boulder but there really wasn’t anywhere” to put a store, Morse said in a phone call on Monday. “Actually it was The Boulder Monitor that made me think of that [location], because I saw the building was for sale and there was a long article about it.”