Wal-Mart wants West Asheville Super Store

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Wal-Mart wants West Asheville store

by Mark Barrett, STAFF WRITER

published November 10, 2005 6:00 am

ASHEVILLE — Discount giant Wal-Mart Stores wants to put what would be its second Asheville Supercenter store just west of the Lowe’s home improvement warehouse on Smoky Park Highway in West Asheville.

The proposal for a 184,000-square-foot store could be the subject of one of the first major development votes taken by a new City Council after a fall campaign in which growth issues were prominent.

Zoning for the “vast majority” of the 25-acre site allows big box retail stores, but part would require rezoning and the project requires council approval because of its large size anyway, Joe Heard, city director of development services, said Wednesday.

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[pecwae]

1. Hopefully, this can be shot down

In Boone, NC Walmart wanted to enlarge their existing store which would have eliminated all green space anywhere near it. The city council wouldn't allow it.

[mikita]

2. oh barf bags....n/t