Wal Mart pulls plug on Northwest Denver store

[paulk]

From the Denver Daily News -

Contracor Chuck Perry told neighborhood residences at a community meeting that Wal Mart representatives pulled the plug on a proposed store at 38th Ave and Wolf (Elitch Gardens old location), largely due to market concerns.

"It was a complete shock", said city councilman Rick Garcia, "It wasn't unbelievable, it was nonbelievable".

The proposed store had created a swarm of controversy and protest in the Highlands Neighborhood.

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I hope this stays true - this is the best news in years! Congrats to the Highland/Tennyson area for keeping these assholes out! Hopefully the Elitch site can now move forward with some real neighborhood development.

[hlthe2b]

1. Good... Chaulk one up for the people!

[Cha]

2. Amazing! Going up against the huge walmart

and winniing..rick garcia didn't sound too happy.

I used to go to Elitch's when I was a kid.

[paulk]

3. actually,Rick Garcia was opposed to Wal Mart

http://www.denvergov.org/CouncilDistrict1/template313745.asp

The quote from the article is kind of strange - but "Denver Daily News" is kind of right wing editorially - so maybe they did that on purpose. I had a letter published there once where they actually screwed up the punctuation to change the meaning of what I'd written.