- Target:
- Walmart
- Region:
- United States of America
HELP US SAY NO TO WALMART!
Walmart is in fact planning on building a new store on Bloomingdale Avenue on the vacant field adjacent to the Bloomingdale Regional Library, directly across Blowing Oak Street.
“Walmart is definitely going in on that location” said, Patrick Murray with the Hillsborough County “The Center” for Development Services Infrastructure and Development Services Team.
Murray said that Walmart is listed as 158,800 sq. ft. store with 720 proposed number of parking spaces, with a total acreage of listed as 43.52 acres, ruling out the idea of a smaller neighborhood market that averages about a third of the size of the new proposed store.
County officials said that the project also includes five out-parcels aside from the main shopping center.
Executive Planner, Frank G. Breaux, also with County’s “The Center” for Development Services explained that the project is currently in for Preliminary Site Plan review.
“The current status is listed as “Insufficient for Review” meaning that additional information is being requested in order to continue the review process,” Breaux said. “There is therefore no site plan approval at this point.”
Hearing the news about the new Walmart store, local community advocate, George Niemann, wondered about the necessity of the project, while expressed some preliminary concern about the impact such a store would affect the roadways and the community.
“To tell you the truth, I am a bit puzzled; do we really need another Walmart?” Niemann asked, adding that the biggest immediate problem could be the additional traffic on the already busy roadway especially during rush hours.
While there is no word on a time frame of project start date or any time frame of the building, Murray said that residents may in fact see the new store built in the neighborhood relatively soon.
“Some projects stretch out for years after submission of the plans, but with a company like Walmart things seem to go quickly,” Murray said.
For more information about the project please visit the www.hillsboroughcounty.org.
We, the undersigned, request that Walmart reconsider the need to build another Walmart in the Bloomingdale/Valrico area.
We believe that the store is not needed and that it would cause a heavy increase in traffic to an already congested area.
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The Say NO to the Bloomingdale Walmart petition to Walmart was written by Chris and is in the category Business at GoPetition.