DeKALB COUNTY, GA-Wal-Mart Stores Inc., no stranger to battles over new store developments, has been welcomed in south DeKalb County by two of the area's residential activist groups, the Gresham Park Community Association and the Greystone Park Community Association. The retailer has opened a 214,000-sf, $15-million store at Gresham Road and Interstate 20, the company's first store inside the Perimeter submarket.
Similar-sized stores are set to open in early 2007 at Interstate 75 and Howell Mill Road, the side of the former Castlegate Hotel; and in Chamblee at Peachtree Industrial Boulevard near Interstate 285, area marketers who have worked with Wal-Mart on other projects tell GlobeSt.com. Representatives of the Gresham Park Community Association, Greystone Park Community Association and community activist John Evans couldn't be reached by GlobeSt.com's publication deadline.
One condition the residential groups obtained from Wal-Mart officials was that the store would sell no firearms or ammunition. Wal-Mart officials declined comment. In Georgia, Wal-Mart has 125 stores, supercenters and Sam's Clubs totaling an estimated 24 million sf, according to GlobeSt.com research. The company's eight distribution centers total an estimated 3.2 million sf.
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