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Wal-Mart Coverage
Stories pertaining to Wal-Mart Stores, Sam's Club, or other related Wal-Mart coverage from the Benton County Daily Record.
- Two for one : Wal-Mart cut the ribbon on the redesigned Rogers store and its new Latin chicken restaurant. (10-30-2008)
- International on the Square : Associates experience Wal-Mart story (06-04-2008)
- Here they come (06-01-2008)
- · Change of plans (03-06-2008)
- Wal-Mart : Customized health plans making a difference (01-23-2008)
- Left behind : There’s plenty of elbow room in Bentonville when Wal-Mart migrates to Kansas City for the annual Year Beginning Meeting (01-23-2008)
- Wal-Mart helps out area food pantries (01-15-2008)
- Wal-Mart Foundation sets application period (11-19-2007)
- Wal-Mart partners up for relief of flooding in Mexico (11-16-2007)
- Retailers nation wide quick to embrace ‘green’ attitude (10-01-2007)
BENTONVILLE — Residents here expecting a Neighborhood Market, the grocery-only chain operated by Wal-Mart, to open near the northwest corner of Arkansas Highway 12 and Southwest I Street by the middle of the year are going to have to wait a little longer. Plans for a Neighborhood Market in the Pinnacle Hills area of Rogers, however, are moving full speed ahead.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Laurie Smalling said the March groundbreaking for a new Neighborhood Market in Bentonville has been delayed, and no new timeline has been set.
“ It’s still our intent to building a Neighborhood Market near Highway 12, but our internal timetables have changed, ” Smalling said. “ There’s just nothing I can say about the timeline for that project that’s set in stone now. ”
The city of Bentonville continues to work on plans for widening and other improvements to both Southwest I Street and Arkansas 12 — which border the area Wal-Mart intends to build on — but Smalling did not confirm that the proposed road work had anything to do with the decision to delay the groundbreaking. Plans approved earlier this year call for a 40, 000-squarefoot Neighborhood Market.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart continues to work its way through the planning process in neighboring Rogers to construct a Neighborhood Market in the Pinnacle Hills area, where it has been confirmed that a Super Target will also be constructed. An exact location for the Rogers Neighborhood Market has not been announced, but Wal-Mart has entered into an agreement with Bill Schwyhart and Robert Thornton for the purchase of property in the Pinnacle Hills area.
“ The developer is in the process of filing with the city (of Rogers ) to start the permitting process, ” Smalling said. “ The official timeline will be determined once the development is through the planning process with the city. ”
Smalling indicated Wal-Mart is moving quickly on the plans.
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