Small businesses, union leaders, and even some mayoral candidates gear up to resist Wal-Mart's plans open its first New York City store.
"Wal-Mart - which says it is looking at more sites in New York - has faced opposition elsewhere, most notably in Chicago and Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb."
As labor and its traditional allies (e.g. small businesses, environmentalists) gear up to fight the first Wal-Mart penetration into NYC, lost in the dialog may be that this is not your basic Wal-Mart.
Yes, it is one-story, 132,000-square-foot, with 1,400 parking spaces.However, it is part of an application that calls for a three-story shopping complex (Wal-Mart on ground floor) and two 25-story apartment towers. And the 'open space' that Wal-Mart will consume is a huge, asphalt parking lot in Rego Park, Queens.
Thanks to Irvin Dawid
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