7/23/2023 0 Comments Long road out of eden walmart![]() The city figures it would have space for about 600 new units of housing.Įden Prairie Community Development Director Janet Jeremiah said Wal-Mart is welcome to stay where it is if it does not enlarge its store. The "town center" is one of the most ambitious parts of Eden Prairie's 2030 planning guide, which the city - like every other locality in the metro area - has sent to the Metropolitan Council for approval.Įden Prairie's hope is that private developers will recast the area that is now home to Wal-Mart, Emerson Process Management and the Brunswick Zone bowling alleys, transforming it into an area of four- to six-story buildings with commercial establishments at street level and housing above. While stressing that they don't want to drive business out of town, council members in December unanimously approved the future town center concept, Main Street and all. He asked that the city revise its plans to "reflect accurately Wal-Mart's plans for the future of its property,'' and to "modify the plan so that it no longer shows a new road that would bi-sect the Wal-Mart site.''Ĭity surveys have found that Eden Prairie residents are eager for a downtown where people can live and walk to shops, restaurants and transit, city officials say. Wal-Mart likes its Eden Prairie location and plans to stay put, regional vice president Michael Gardner said in a letter to Mayor Phil Young. An all-new "Main Street" would even cut right across Wal-Mart's existing parking lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() The city's concept calls for smaller, pedestrian-oriented businesses forming a new 100-acre downtown that would completely encompass the current Wal-Mart site. Wal-Mart has urged Eden Prairie to alter its redevelopment plans for the area north of Eden Prairie Mall to take its store out of the plan. Both of those stores are larger than the square footage shown in the Drumore Crossing plan.Eden Prairie envisions a new "town center'' in its future, and Wal-Mart - to the company's dismay - has a store right in the middle of it. Both are in Chester County and both are anchored by Walmart stores. The two closest to Lancaster County are Oxford Commons and West Sadsbury Commons. Wolfson has more than a dozen shopping centers in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Walmart also has smaller stores but most of them do not carry groceries. According to Walmart's website, the average size of a super store is 187,000 square feet typically, those stores carry groceries as well as other merchandise. The anchor store in the published plan for the shopping center has more than 156,000 square feet that plan was drawn up in 2007. It will also have five individual buildings that can be either stores, offices, or restaurants. The supervisors gave the developer a two-year extension as long as the developer updated township officials at least every six months.Īccording to the developer's website, the shopping center will have one anchor store and several smaller stores. But time was running out on the conditional use contract the developer, Wolfson Group, and the township signed.Īccording to published minutes of the township supervisors' June 6, 2019, public meeting, Wolfson representative Greg Adelman asked the township for a one-year extension. An economic recession halted most shopping center construction in the country and the face of retailing changed with internet shopping. The property, formerly a farm, is zoned for commercial use shopping centers are permitted in a commercial zone as a conditional use Following a series of often-contentious public hearings and a protracted court battle, the township gave the developer a conditional use permit for the property at the intersection of Lancaster Pike (Rt. The center, called Drumore Crossing, has been in the planning stages since 2003. "I've heard the rumors about Drumore Crossing ," said Drumore Township zoning officer Mark Deimler, "and I can tell you there is no movement on that in any fashion."
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