Redesigned Plans for Walmart Market Heading Back to Planning & Zoning
By: KOLR10 Newsroom
Updated: January 16, 2013
SPRINGFIELD
Read More: Planning & Zoning Commission Puts Breaks on Proposed Walmart Market
The City says Walmart has requested
that the Neighborhood Market issue at
The issue will be on the January 24 Planning and Zoning Commission agenda.
In December, the Planning & Zoning board voiced major concern about a residential area along Normal Street, which would have been used for an entry way into the grocer's parking lot. The changes include installing concrete islands on"Walmart is not locally owned, and I don't care how
much money they spend or how many people they hire, the bulk of the money goes
to Bentonville, Arkansas and not Springfield, Missouri," said property owner
Jim Lee.
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