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Walmart Revives Plan for Store in Settler's MarketBy Desiree Parker Wednesday, February 01, 2012
That larger property, now being developed by Federal Capital Partners and Westmoreland Partners, is working its way through the local administrative process, and Walmart is ready to restart its plans. According to James City County planning staff, though the 2008 site plan approval is still valid, Walmart submitted a conceptual plan for review as it has scaled down its plans a bit. The new plan calls for a 41,785-square-foot anchor building, expected to be a Walmart Neighborhood Market, and one adjacent retail building of up to 20,000 square feet. According to the Walmart website, a neighborhood market offers “a quick and convenient shopping experience for customers who need groceries, pharmaceuticals, and general merchandise all at our famous Every Day Low Prices.” The first such store opened in 1998; now there are 167. A typical store is about 42,000 square feet, according to the Walmart website. A typical neighborhood market includes fresh produce; meat and dairy products; frozen food; health and beauty aids; a drive-through pharmacy; stationery and paper goods; deli foods; bakery items; canned and packaged goods; a one-hour photo center and more. The plan will go before the Planning Commission’s Development Review Committee likely in late February. The DRC will decide if the plan can continue with an administrative review process or if it needs to go before the full Planning Commission. The Market would join nearby grocery stores Trader Joe’s, Fresh Market, and Martin’s. Target also recently expanded to sell groceries. |
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Walmart has re-started the process of opening a Neighborhood Market in Settler’s Market.
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Further, even if this location is infrastructure neutral/cost efficient because the area is already organized/desig ned a certain way anyway, Wal-mart as a business model doesn't really work - Wal-mart employees effectively need welfare subsidies of some sort to survive - this doesn't come out of James City county's coffers directly, but there is an indirect effect on all tax-payers. Effectively, Wal-Mart and similar businesses abuse the social safety net - their model makes it difficult for their employees to shop anywhere else; and without state subsidies for things like healthcare, many would struggle to afford the basic nessecities sold at Wal-mart.
Now. Do we want this sort of business in our community or not?
So many reasons that both big box stores and walmart specifically are just plain lousy.
Exactly the point. All of he mindless commentary by the small band of loonies serves is to pass on bad information. 'stop the growth' stop the growth. OK.....fine lets stop the growth....lets say you loonies bought the property under the zoning set out by the master plan.....and now want to build a business there. A new group of loonies comes in to say now. How exactly would you feel about that? STOP SPREADING STUPID INFORMATION, unless of course your real goal is disinformation, which I would then say stop stop your lies, loonies.
Walmart owns the property they are developing..... .they therefore can do whatever they want....as long as it fits in with the master plan for what the site ALLOWS they are entitled as owners......non competes only relate to the space that the landlord owns/manages... .
Jeff, thats because all of these posts are really the same small group of loonies in Williamsburg trying to pretend they are a wide field of discontent. They are in reality a small group of nuts.