To me this is a positive change for the neighborhood, they just fail to recognize it.
To me this is a positive change for the neighborhood, they just fail to recognize it.
Yikes! Gangs? My UT dd lives in Hyde Park off West 45th Street. That’s not very far from this proposed WalMart, is it?
THAT is one ugly building.
That’s the nicest big box store I’ve ever seen.
The NIMBY crowd is not going to be happy with this. They have been fighting this tooth and nail and I am sure they will continue. If I were running Wal-Mart I would close down every store in Travis county, reopen them just outside the county line, and not hire employees that live in Austin. Let the people reap what they sow.
It looks great. Much improved. Walmart stores are also leading the way in environmental technology, which is cool.
Funny! Most of the stores in the mall have closed or are closing. Half the parking lot is gone. They’re building the drainage system. One wall on the south side is being erected. A Walgreens has popped up in the north side parking lot.
They were going to build this not matter what the Yuppies thought. It will be the largest, most upscale WM in the world.
Some of the neighbors were just concerned about the traffic, but the origins of this battle goes back to the socialist’s war against capitalism and liberals attacks on those evil Republican-supporting Waltons.
They just opened one in Monona, WI. I took my Dad there for a tour a few weeks back, and it was impressive. Nicely done, added hundreds of jobs to a depressed area with pay starting at $11.82 an hour WITH benefits.
Underground parking, not a blight on the landscape. What was there before? A failed mini-mall and acres of asphalt that had sat empty for FIVE years.
And, despite leftist (and some really ignorant Freepers) opinions, you CAN find everything you NEED at Wal-Mart with a ‘Made in America’ sticker on it. I do. Every few weeks. :)