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Motion tabled: West Milwaukee parts supplier in limbo after landlord loses property to foreclosure (access required)

Published: March 28, 2013
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Through his warehouse’s back window, Mike Medek can see West Milwaukee’s nearly complete Walmart, one more store in the flood of retail rising around his industrial shop.

Plans in works to build Walmart in New Berlin (access required)

Published: December 12, 2012
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Manhard Consulting Ltd, Vernon Hills, Ill., is asking New Berlin to rezone two plots of land in the 15000 block of West Greenfield Avenue and to amend its Future Land Use map and certified survey map to accommodate a new Walmart store.

Greenfield trusts Walmart to find replacement (access required)

Published: December 9, 2010
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By Joe Lanane Trust is at the heart of what amounts to a handshake agreement between Greenfield and Walmart that the retailer will try to fill its former building after moving into a nearby superstore. The city this week approved a new Walmart Supercenter on West Layton Avenue and Highway 100 immediately south of the [...]

Walmart moving closer to expanding Milwaukee-area presence

Published: November 15, 2010
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By Jan Basina Get ready, Walmart is about to strike again. • UPDATE: Walmart Store Expansion Into Supercenter, 1362 W. Main St., Whitewater, Walworth County • Walmart Grocery Store Project, 5301 S. 76th St., Greendale, Milwaukee County Last week came reports that Walmart is considering locating at three sites in the Milwaukee area. And it [...]

Road to retailer

Published: July 16, 2010
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Walmart not an evil giant for construction industry

Published: March 8, 2010
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By Jan Basina I often hear people hammering away on Walmart about one policy or another and often I agree with them, but that’s probably fodder for some other blog. Let’s focus today about Walmart and its proliferation of construction projects. Even in this weak economy, the Bentonville, Ark., retailer has not been afraid to [...]

Katrina bull’s-eye town waits for rebound

Published: October 19, 2009
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Emily Wagster Pettus AP Writer Jackson, MS — On the morning the Walmart reopened last week in Pass Christian, rain canceled a small parade Mayor Chipper McDermott had planned, so folks stood inside the store and handed out gaudy Mardi Gras beads instead of throwing them from a float. They might as well have been [...]

Officials OK Walmart near Civil War battlefield in Virginia

Published: August 25, 2009
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Steve Szkotak AP Writer Orange, VA — Officials in central Virginia approved a Walmart Supercenter near one of the nation’s most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and historians. The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 early Tuesday to grant the special permit to the world’s biggest retailer [...]