New Wal-Mart?

By por_tk
June 30th, 2005 @ 10:42 AM Uncategorized

Biking past a parked car this morning, I saw a sign posted in the window. It read:

“No New Wal-Mart at the corner of SE McLoughlin and Tacoma!”

Anybody know anything about this?

5 Comments so far

  1. Chad (unregistered) on June 30th, 2005 @ 11:23 am

    Sam Adams – City Commish – has been working on this:

    http://www.commissionersam.com/sam_adams/2005/06/tilting_at_wind.html

    Read bout it at his blog.


  2. J.D. (unregistered) on June 30th, 2005 @ 12:05 pm

    My understanding is that Wal-Mart has purchased the old Goodwill site and plan to erect a store there. While this is possible, and even probably true, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense because the existing infrastructure could not possibly sustain a Wal-Mart. Still, there’s already active opposition:

    http://www.nosellwoodwalmart.com/

    It doesn’t seem like the best place to me, either.


  3. Clackablog (unregistered) on June 30th, 2005 @ 12:49 pm

    Well, I had an article on it in Clackablog, which you can find by Googling it.

    It would probably be cheaper than a neutron bomb, if your aim was to completely destroy entrepeneurial retail in downtown Milwaukie.

    That _is_ what PDC’s all about, right?


  4. Eamon (unregistered) on July 1st, 2005 @ 3:03 pm

    Terry Olsen has posted several comments about this proposal on his blog OlsonOnline(http://joesschool.blogs.com/olsononline/).


  5. tk (unregistered) on July 1st, 2005 @ 8:30 pm

    Thanks for the URLs, y’all.

    Is ANYBODY for Wal-mart? It’s difficult for me to comprehend.



Terms of use | Privacy Policy | Content: Creative Commons | Site and Design © 2009 | Metroblogging ® and Metblogs ® are registered trademarks of Bode Media, Inc.