Retailer Drops Plans For Giant Store

2 February 2001 - 12:00pm

Facing intense opposition from residents, retailer Ikea dropped plans for a giant store in a suburb of New York City.

"Opposition to the planned 308,000-square-foot store was based primarily on concerns over increased traffic in a mostly residential areaof New Rochelle. Several dozen homeowners and businesses on the 15-acre site also would have been forced to move...Also opposing the store was the Institute for Justice, a Washington, D.C., group that opposes government-sanctioned commercial development that requires homeowners to move, a practice known as eminent domain."

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 2, 2001
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