There's a study with (I think) similar conclusions. When Walmart moves, it usually just moves to the next town over.
http://recenter.tamu.edu/pdf/1720.pdf >Ok...map yourself a drive out to Huber Heights Ohio. When you get off I70 >you want to turn north on 202 you will find a building that MAY be >temporiarily filled or empty. Your will notice plenty of expansion room, I >heard a Bed Bath and Beyond might be moving in so it may not be empty >anymore. This is where the Old walmart was. Also notice that many of the >shops are empty now. Though you will also find on the left a lovely >shopping center still thriving, we werre supposed to get a mall but Wal-mart >lobbied against that. Now once you've seen that you'll find a road shull rd. >Turn down it (right, turning the other way will take you to Lowes) continue >down that road for a bit, mind the stop signs they're a pain in the toosh. >You will hit 201 turn right again continue for a mile and you will find a >NEW walmart along with quite a few other businesses. The fuinny thing is all >these businesses were doing well in thier old location but since walmrt >moved so did thay. You can find thier old vacant shops around town mostly >where Walmart used to be or over by the Kmart and Kroger. You will notice >its not a significant amount bigger and considering move of the shops next >to the old wal-mart have a higher turnover than that wal-marts staff they >could have obtained that extra land had thery needed to. I digress though >you will also find out that they had an incentive to build a new walmart. >Now if you still want to tour some more continue on untill you find >Taylorsville Road. Take another right. Soon you will find yourself at 202 >again. Take a Right (hey we're almost back to the highway). You''ll find a >BRAND new Kroger, to your left behind the Fridays. Funny thing is though you >won't see an old Kroger building. Why? Oh b/c instead of moving down the >road to a new location. Kroger temporarily moved into a vacant building >while they tore down and rebuilt thier other building. Interesting enough >the BIG sproting good store (in that shoppping center where the Mall should >have been but walmart stopped it) wasn't there during the walmart move and >walmart could have opened up shop thier fairly easily. Anyways back to the >highway now, oh yeah I forgot to mention when you got off the highway to >notice the nice new wider than life road. Yeah they just finished that to >deal with the LARGE amount of traffic influx thats been plagueing (all be it >good for the local economy) the city since wal-mart went in. Nice that >walmart have now moved after the construction just finished this year, moved >to a close location that is now plagued with the same problems. Cool deal >that they have now gotten the city to give incentives twice and will now >force the city to redo streets twice. Now turn left on the highway and go >home satisfied that you now know wal-mart does move out if they are not >given incentives. > >Adam > >On 1/15/06, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:192674 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
