Wal-Mart To Displace Denver Community Hub?
13 June 2002 - 7:00am
Small business owners are concerned that a city-backed plan will replace a community hub with a Wal-Mart.
"Asian small business owners who revived a dying strip mall in west Denver are now fighting an ambitious city-backed plan that would replace their stores with a Wal-Mart... To customers [it] is more than a collection of 25 business...It is a retail hub for the burgeoning Asian community in metro Denver... Bringing the nation's No. 1 retailer to the working-class Athmar neighborhood would create 400 jobs and generate an estimated $90 million in annual sales tax for the city...Store owners say they don't oppose Wal-Mart's coming to their neighborhood, but they resent being scattered."
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Wal-Mart to topple Asian center
Source:
The Denver Post, June 7, 2002
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