Wisconsin-based home improvement retailer Menards is delaying construction on a new store in Ohio citing, uncertainty generated by the Obama administration.
A company official told the Times Reporter in New Philadelphia, Ohio that the store slated for the city will be delayed for about a year.
Jessie O’Mara, a spokesperson for Menards, told the newspaper that the company is feeling anxious adding stores during the current presidential administration.
“We are a family owned business and with the Obama Administration scaring the dickens out of all family businesses in the U.S.A at present and with no certainty if the next administration will be any better, we have decided not to risk expansion until things are more settled,” O’Mara wrote in an email to the newspaper.
The mayor, Joel Day, told the newspaper that the delay as a disappointment. He said it’s hard to imagine how the uncertainty of a presidential election could affect a decision to build a store, but in the corporate world such things do play a role.
The store was originally expected to open in June 2017.
