Wal-Mart Meets Hercules
Filed in archive Management by Steve Rucinski on June 01, 2006

Background: Hercules (population 23,000) is a city that knows its own mind. It has a New Urbanist development plan (mixed use, elaborate design details, walkable neighborhoods) drawn up with extensive citizen consultation for the area Wal-Mart wants to build - and dropping a giant store in the middle of things does not fit the plan. Not that Hercules is against retail. On the contrary, it has long planned for the 17-acre site to be a neighborhood shopping center, but with lots of small stores, not one giant discounter.
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