As I was driving by there today, work seems to be well in progress. I wonder if this will put an end to the Wal-Mart in the Hunt-Valley Towne Centre a few miles up the road. What will be put in its place?



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COCKEYSVILLE, Md. -- Wal-Mart has announced plans to open a Supercenter along York Road in Hunt Valley in the fall of 2007.

A statement from the company said the new store will be built at 10400 York Road, the former location of the AAI Corp. The 224,000-square-feet site was leased from businessman Robert Frankel.

The new Hunt Valley Supercenter is expected to feature a full line of groceries as well as a bakery, delicatessen, and an expanded selection of organic food items. It will also have a bank, a drive-through pharmacy and garden center, as well as a Subway restaurant.

There are plans to widen York Road to accomodate increased traffic and install a new traffic light and access road.


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Think if we had a surface parking tax, how much money we'd get from that sucker! :lol:

Nate

Hmm thats interesting.

As far as I know AAI corp. is in buisness were are they going? Looking at google earth are they tearing down all of AAI's buildings, there office building is only 20 years old. Or are they building around it. Look like a lot of space in the back.

When I heard this news I hd thought that the Wal-Mart would be going in the old Ames lot across from the fairgrounds.

According to the Sun the Wal-Mart in Hunt Valley will close. That shopping center is ultra-hot so I wouldn't expect that space to go unfilled long.

As an update, I drove past the site today, the Wal-Mart will be north of the AAI office building (which theyy mostly sub lease out anyway) and behind it and the caddilac dealer. Kinda hidden actually.

Wal mart has a regular store in Hunt Valley next to a year old Wegman's and then one exit down 83 is a Sam's Club. Are they wedging this one right in between those exsisting one?

Wal-Mart to open first store inside the Beltway
Washington Business Journal - 1:07 PM EST Monday, February 19, 2007
by Barton Eckert
Contributing Writer

Wal-Mart, which has announced plans to open stores in nine areas the company says need help with economic revitalization, will put a store in Landover Hills.

The store, at the former Capitol Plaza Shopping Center in Prince George's County, would be the first Wal-Mart inside the Beltway. The store is scheduled to open this spring.

The Bentonville, Ark.-based company has already opened stores in Chicago and Portsmouth, Va., as part of its effort to aid communities that need development help.

Other projects include a food and merchandise supercenter in Cleveland at the site of a former steelyard and a supercenter at Lafayette Square in Indianapolis.

Additionally, standard stores will be opened in Decatur, Ga; El Mirage, Ariz., near Luke Air Force Base; Richmond, Calif.; Sanger, Calif., Indianapolis; and East Hills, Pa., near Pittsburgh.

"As jobs are created around the new Wal-Mart stores, tax revenue will rise and the neighborhood economy will improve," says Wal-Mart Vice Chairman John Menzer.

In April, CEO Lee Scott said the company planned to build 50 stores in areas with high crime or high unemployment. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will offer advertising to the other businesses in local newspapers and through the in-house audio feed in Wal-Mart stores.

This one is going to be fancy. They have widened the lanes for the new intersection. The pole has already gone up for the traffic light and The building structure is seemingly complete. Not the best time of day to be shooting at that location with a giant fireball hanging right above the roof.

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Not the best time of day to be shooting at that location with a giant fireball hanging right above the roof.


And by giant fireball you mean huge ball of light revolving around the Earth put there by a magical man in the sky, right?

/sarc :)

Walmart Sucks. I don't see this as a positive.

^^in terms of the jobs that it'll create for the area, it'll definitely do more good than bad. i'm all for it!:okay:

^^in terms of the jobs that it'll create for the area, it'll definitely do more good than bad. i'm all for it!:okay:

meh. They are going to close the regular wal-mart less than a mile a way, so no large change in the number of jobs.

And it would be AWAY from MTA.