Walmart in Tacoma One Step Closer
Update: It looks like the Elks deal went through for about $12.2 million. $11 million for the large parcel planned for the Walmart, the rest to Allenmore Medical Investors LLC for smaller retail uses, according to the latest from The News Tribune.
We’re assuming most of you caught wind of this yesterday, but in case you missed it: it looks like the sale of the Elks Lodge on Union to Walmart developers is going ahead.
According to the TNT, the sale is expected to close today, and the Elks will have to be out by the end of June.
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, there has been some … ongoing debate about the merits of that retailer in particular and other “large scale retail” in general for Tacoma.
Read a little more from The News Tribune.
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2 comments
J jd May 6, 2012
Let’s start a pool to guess which local, living-wage-paying, fair-benefit-providing businesses will go under, once this POS opens. We can also make guesses as to how many additional workers will be forced to apply for government assistance, thanks to HoleMart’s well-established record of how they treat their employees.
Let’s see here…they rape and pillage the environment, engage in unfair and illegal business practices, discriminate based on sex and race, drive competing local companies out of business, and force their employees to get government aid.
In return for this, we get to save a couple of dollars by buying shoddily made, cheap crap, so that billionaires can become richer (the Walton family owns over 50% of the company). Sounds like a fair trade-off to me!
Don’t get me wrong…I have no problem with people making piles of money. I just don’t think it should be done at the expense of all else. It certainly shouldn’t be done on the backs of the people doing the work, the local communities, or the planet.
R Rockwell May 6, 2012
If the city wanted to have stopped Wal*Mart from coming to town, they could have. They decline countless applications for multitudes of the tiniest “incomplete” items… yet for something as massive as this application they just accepted it with a shrug.
Our city is afraid of any company with a competent attorney… even the incompetent ones. It all comes down to a council and staff who really aren’t familiar enough with TMCs to stand up confidently in the city’s behalf.
Too bad.
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