"If a site is historic, Walmart wants to put a store on it"

[n2doc]

To sum up: Walmart tried to put a “Super Center” in Orange County. Their preferred site was the historic Wilderness battlefield. If a site is historic, Walmart wants to put a store on it. There was a huge legal fight, court victories in Walmart’s corner, politicians, actors, Pulitzer winners, historians, etc., all opposed it. There were appeals and suddenly Walmart said never mind.

During the entire fight, Walmart said all other proposed sites were “inadequate”. They said they need property that was commercially zoned, in a single parcel and providing 20 acres for the store and parking area (they gotta let overnight campers in RVs park in their lot so maybe they’ll buy toothpaste, or in most cases…denture adhesive, when they wake up in the morning). They were offered one site at the western end of the State Route 3 corridor, but Walmart said it was inadequate. Suddenly, it’s adequate. Go figure. I’m thinking someone must have suggested Washington did sleep there. Walmart’s probably hoping he’ll come back for Polygrip for his wooden teeth.

http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/toontalk/2011/05/24/inadequate-realty/

[HopeHoops]

1. They tried to plop one on a Civil War cemetary right next to the Gettysburg battlefield.

After about a gazillion people bitched, they decided there was a "more attractive" site about a mile away.

Right now they are trying to put one on a dinky lot next to a mall (near Camp Hill, PA) with a parking garage because there's just no room for parking. That's ironic since the spot used to be a car dealership. The ONLY reason they're putting it there is because the last remaining toy store (Toys R Us) on the West Shore is right behind the mall. They'll do the same thing they've done everywhere else - sell toys below cost until the toy store closes and then jack the prices up to above what Toys R Us charges.

Evil, evil company.

[CBGLuthier]

2. The Walmart nearest to me is built roughly where Lon Chaney, Jr was born

Maybe not as historic to some. I do like to think of Lon Chaney riding the trolley cars that used to be near my house 100 years ago from a performance downtown to the then outskirts of town.

[Recursion]

3. Then again, throw a rock in NoVa and you hit a civil war battlefield

It's a problem with all development, not just WalMart.

[Historic NY]

4. You'd never know my town was one of the most historic Rev. War towns in NY State.

I live in Orange County NY.