If I recall correctly, Walmart had trouble building stores in Washington, DC, inside the District of Columbia. And there were similar issues of the city wanting to control how it was developed, other “investments” to be required, etc.
I wonder if that’s in the Democrat playbook, that you insist on various ancillary spending to be done by companies seeking to locate in your community. But then, you can see they would rather see land stay a vacant wasteland, than be put to productive use. Because when companies such as Disney or Walmart pull out, then nothing happens in these wastelands.
I can’t believe they would rather see vacant spaces used by drug dealers and God knows what other low lifes, doing God knows what, rather than see productive use.
Grocery u ions in California tried to prevent super Walmarts by having cities limit the size of the store by sq ft. This gif course may keep other claret big box stores out. But the grocery unions don’t care about the city.
Walmart not being stupid came up with the concept of Neighborhood Walmart with a small supermarket and pharmacy. Their pharmacy near me is greta and the store is 24 hours. When you have some latitude for capitalism smart people will find a way to do business and city council members in union pockets will harm their own city.