From the Ground Up: Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market

Owner/developer: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (Bentonville, Ark.)
General contractor: Nabholz Construction Corp.
Architect: LK Architecture Inc. (Wichita, Kan.)
Engineers: BFA Inc. (Washington), civil, mechanical and plumbing; Wallace Engineering (Tulsa, Okla.), structural; and MPW Engineering LLC (Tulsa), electrical.
Size: 42,058 square feet
Estimated cost: $2.9 million
Lender: N/A
Estimated completion date: Dec. 31
Project description: Late last month, Wal-Mart Stores began hiring 90 to 95 full- and part-time employees to work at the retailer’s fifth Neighborhood Market in town. The store is expected to open in early 2015, said Erica Jones, Wal-Mart’s senior vice president of communications. The stores offer a full line of groceries – produce, frozen foods, meat and dairy products and organic items – as well as  a pharmacy and general merchandise including health and beauty products, pet supplies and paper goods.

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