Palm Coast Florida Planning Board Approves Final Site Plan for Wal-Mart Supercenter
Plan needs approval by Palm Coast City Council next.
Palm Coast, Florida – July 16, 2008 – The Palm Coast, Florida Planning and Land Development Regulation Board (PLDRB) unanimously approved the final site plan for the Wal-Mart SuperCenter to be built on Old Kings Road. The Palm Coast City Council must now approve the plan. The start of construction will coincide with the start of the Old Kings Road widening project, projected to begin in October. Both the Old Kings widening and Wal-Mart construction are expected to take about twelve months to complete. The 187,488 square foot structure will be situated on a 31.9-acre parcel. The scope of the project requires City Council approval. Tonight’s vote was to recommend council approval.
A Walmart representative at the meeting said there were no plans to change the existing store to a Sam’s Club. It will remain as a traditional Walmart store.
Aerial Map showing repositioned Old Kings Road (this takes a few minutes to load but it’s worth the wait)
Site Plan (Note the storm water retention pond separating the parking lot from the road)
WAL MART
Is WalMart so afraid of Target that they are building another monstrosity of a building. They already have a location in downtown PC. and that should be ample exposure to paacify their voracious maw.
I find it difficut to support a business that is putting all the small shps out of busines. I believe that the city council has an obligaton to potect the ownes of small shops and I encourage them to deny this projet..
Free Market Economy
I agree with Gene on the fact that I have a tough time supporting Wal-Mart given there impact on local businesses. But that is my choice. It’s not the responsibility of the City Council to protect the small businesses. It is the responsibility of small businesses to provide a service or product that competes with Wal-mart. If Wal-Mart feels there is an under served market, who is the City Council to stop them as long as they abide by the laws and regulations of the city. I am personally excited, not to shop at the new Wal-Mart, but to see the economic development in our city.
Is the older Wal-Mart being converted to a SAMS?
Well, it’s good to hear that the new Wal-Mart is progressing in the approval process, but is there any word as to whether the old Wal-Mart will remain as is, or will it be converted to a Sams, as we had heard earlier?
Write Palm Coast City Council to block new Wal mar
Good morning,
I would like to stop another Wal-Mart from opening in Palm Coast. Please if you agree send an email to the following City Council members and please feel free to forward this to anyone that you feel would agree. Thanks
https://www.ci.palm-coast.fl.us/Contact/
Please use this as the subject line: Palm Coast Florida Planning Board Approves Final Site Plan for Wal-Mart Supercenter
Please use this as the body of the message:
Please vote NO to the new Wal Mart. Our city does not need another Wal-Mart. Please see the following information regarding how Wal Mart does business.
Please find something on these links and copy it into your email. I picked Tax dollars.
https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/
https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/news/
Your tax dollars pay for Wal-Mart’s greed
The estimated total amount of federal assistance for which Wal-Mart employees were eligible in 2004 was $2.5 billion. [The Hidden Price We All Pay For Wal-Mart, A Report By The Democratic Staff Of The Committee On Education And The Workforce, 2/16/04]
One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,750 per year. This cost comes from the following, on average:
$36,000 a year for free and reduced lunches for just 50 qualifying Wal-Mart families.
$42,000 a year for low-income housing assistance.
$125,000 a year for federal tax credits and deductions for low-income families.
$100,000 a year for the additional expenses for programs for students.
$108,000 a year for the additional federal health care costs of moving into state children’s health insurance programs (S-CHIP)
$9,750 a year for the additional costs for low income energy assistance.
[The Hidden Price We All Pay For Wal-Mart, A Report By The Democratic Staff Of The Committee On Education And The Workforce, 2/16/04]
Health care subsidies compared to executive compensation
Excluding his salary of $1.2 million, in 2004 Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott made around $22 million in bonuses, stock awards, and stock options in 2004.
This $22 million could reimburse taxpayers in 3 states where Wal-Mart topped the list of users of state-sponsored health care programs, covering more than 15,000 Wal-Mart employees and dependents. [Wal-Mart Proxy Statement and News Articles GA, CT, AL].
Your tax dollars subsidize Wal-Mart’s growth
The first ever national report on Wal-Mart subsidies documented at least $1 billion in subsidies from state and local governments.
A Wal-Mart official stated that "it is common" for the company to request subsidies "in about one-third of all [retail] projects." This would suggest that over a thousand Wal-Mart stores have been subsidized. ["Shopping For Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth," Good Job First, May 2004]
Thanks!
Write the Palm Coast City Council and tell them NO
Please write to the council and tell them to vote no to another Wal mart in Palm Coast.
https://www.ci.palm-coast.fl.us/Contact/
From the https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/
Costs to Taxpayers
Download the Wal-Mart and Cost to Taxpayers fact sheet –
Your tax dollars pay for Wal-Mart’s greed
The estimated total amount of federal assistance for which Wal-Mart employees were eligible in 2004 was $2.5 billion. [The Hidden Price We All Pay For Wal-Mart, A Report By The Democratic Staff Of The Committee On Education And The Workforce, 2/16/04]
One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,750 per year. This cost comes from the following, on average:
$36,000 a year for free and reduced lunches for just 50 qualifying Wal-Mart families.
$42,000 a year for low-income housing assistance.
$125,000 a year for federal tax credits and deductions for low-income families.
$100,000 a year for the additional expenses for programs for students.
$108,000 a year for the additional federal health care costs of moving into state children’s health insurance programs (S-CHIP)
$9,750 a year for the additional costs for low income energy assistance.
[The Hidden Price We All Pay For Wal-Mart, A Report By The Democratic Staff Of The Committee On Education And The Workforce, 2/16/04]
Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats
https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/us_nm/walmart_democrats_dc
Walmart when?
It is now January 2011 – does anyone
know when they are going to actually
start building the new Walmart on
Old Kings Hwy?
Thanks
Sams not
I neglected to mention in the original story that the Walmart rep said there was no plan to change the existing store. I will add that now.