Hobby Lobby, the country’s largest arts and crafts chain, is heading to Montgomery County. Construction is now underway at the former Best Buy space on Shady Grove Road, with plans to open sometime in 2026. Hobby Lobby, based in Oklahoma, famously prevailed in a 2014 Supreme Court case where it won the right to exclude birth control coverage from its employee health care plan. Owner Steve Green, who also founded D.C.’s Museum of the Bible, makes his religious beliefs a central part of the company’s mission. All stores are closed on Sundays, as is the Hobby Lobby website, “to allow our employees and customers more time for worship and family.” Will this ultra-conservative company be welcomed in famously liberal Montgomery County? At the construction site on Shady Grove Road, workers say they’re already getting negative feedback from passersby. “Doesn’t seem like anyone wants this,” one worker told us.