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Wal-Mart Not Opening Till 2013

The new Greendale Wal-Mart will open after January 1, 2013, even though construction is set to finish in November 2012.

The new Wal-Mart under construction on 76th Street will not open until after Jan. 1, 2013. 

Greendale Village Manager Todd Michaels said in a phone interview that the latest schedule indicates the construction will be done around Thanksgiving, but that the store will not open till 2013. 

, which will include a grocery market that will make up 40% of the store, a pharmacy and two outlots for development by future tenants.

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Michaels said he has not heard of any tenants being signed for the two outlots. 

Wal-Mart representatives have stressed that this particular store will be a neighborhood store meant to service the community within a 2-mile radius.

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The current property where Wal-Mart would be is valued at $4 million. Once development is done the value of the property would go up to about $10 million or more, which would improve the village’s tax base.

A number of residents expressed their opposition to a Wal-Mart during the approval process. Former U.S. Bowling Congress owners, who use to occupy the building, and village officials said it took 


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