NORTH LAUDERDALE, FL ASKS FOR A WAL-MART
North Lauderdale: City wants Wal-Mart to speed building of store [Sun Sentinel (Fla.)]
City officials want a Super Wal-Mart, even if they have to go to Arkansas to get it.
The city plans to send a letter to Wal-Mart requesting a meeting with the company at their corporate headquarters. At a City Commission meeting last month, Mayor Jack Brady and City Manager Richard Sala both were authorized to attend.
Plans for the store on the south side of McNab Road have been in the works for about two years. Wal-Mart was slated to be the anchor for a proposed 43-acre Town Center with 36,000 square feet of retail space.
The city originally wanted Wal-Mart to find other tenants to fill the center, but after project delays and the economic downturn, Brady said the city needs the center built as soon as possible.
“If it sounds like we’re begging, we are,” he said. “We need the money. It’ll generate tax dollars.”
Posted by Tony Calero on Monday, August 11, 2008
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