[CPEO-BIF] No Wal-Mart in Newtown (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Life after Wal-Mart
Loss of Newtown deal is no reason to give up

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL)
September 19, 2007

A plan to put a new Wal-Mart on a polluted brownfield in Newtown died a 
quiet death this month. More than three years of work went down the drain.

There was no real explanation. Apparently, the discount retailer and the 
city of Sarasota (which owns the site) could not agree on funding this 
private-public partnership.

It is discouraging to see the property -- vacant for many years -- sit 
useless. For down-on-its luck Newtown, redevelopment on those 18 acres 
would spark jobs and economic activity. Wal-Mart could have provided 
both, but many of those jobs would not have paid well.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070919/OPINION/709190467/1030

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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