The operator of the Ace Hardware store on Third Street in Bend is adding another location — on Bend’s west side — in spring 2011, a store representative said Wednesday.

The store will be at 1538 N.W. Newport Ave., between Northwest College Way and Northwest Juniper Street.

Mitchell Hardware Inc., which opened the Third Street Ace Hardware store next to Safeway in June 2007, also operates two Ace Hardware stores in Tacoma and Burien, Wash., said Dale Murphy, Bend-based operations manager for the three stores.

Murphy could not provide a specific opening date for the store.

The store will employ 10 to 14 full- and part-time employees and stock tens of thousands of products in categories such as paint and lawn and garden, according to a news release from Murphy.