Office Depot on Chad Drive to close May 22, 2026

Office Depot’s store at 2859 Chad Drive in Eugene will close on May 22, removing a familiar quick-stop option for toner, copy paper, folders and last-minute school or shipping supplies on the north side of town. Signs announcing the closure are already posted on the building, and Office Depot’s store locator still lists the Eugene location as Store #920 at 2859 Chad Drive, Eugene, OR 97408.

For shoppers who need an office-supply run without crossing town, the nearest remaining chain option will be OfficeMax at 2860 Willamette St. in Eugene, which will stay open. That matters in a corridor where same-day errands often depend on fast access from Coburg Road, the Randy Papé Beltline and nearby neighborhoods. Office Depot and OfficeMax completed their merger in 2013, leaving the Willamette Street store as the surviving nearby link in the merged chain.

The Chad Drive closure lands in the middle of a major land-use shift. The corridor has been described as one of the last large pieces of developable land in north Eugene, and much of it is zoned E-1, Campus Employment. A wave of projects is already planned nearby, including an Oregon State Police forensics lab and medical examiner’s office of more than 44,000 square feet, plus 33,600-square-foot medical office, clinic and surgery center projects from Slocum Orthopedics and Eugene Gastroenterology.

That buildout follows years of change on land once tied to the Baker family’s large holdings, which were sold off in pieces over time. Eugene leaders in the early 1990s had imagined Chad Drive as a high-tech campus-industrial hub, but that vision faded, and the city later opened the area to a wider mix of businesses and institutional users. The Office Depot departure adds another retail turnover to a corridor now tilting toward larger, longer-term development, raising the stakes for who will meet everyday needs as more of north Eugene is remade.