Mount Prospect, Illinois is slated to get a bigger Wal-Mart. That has officials in this community giddy with excitement. Although Wal-Mart may be growing, unfortunately
It appears that one Wal-Mart supercenter is enough for now in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Superstore #1935 is located on Town Centre Drive in Johnstown, roughly 14
On December 21, 2007, Sprawl-Busters reported that what began in a great rush by Wal-Mart, had turned into a costly waiting game for the retailer.
We’ve learned the hard way that Wall Street likes free taxpayer money as much as it loves the free market. But Wal-Mart has had its
Anti-Wal-Mart activists have cost Wal-Mart hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales at their store in Redding, California. On June 29, 2004, Sprawl-Busters reported
On January 17, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that a Wal-Mart battle in Tarpon Springs, Florida reached its three year mark — and the giant retailer had
On August 9, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart was in the middle of a controversial plan to expand its existing discount store into a superstore
This week, Wal-Mart opponents in a small Ohio community won a sudden — and unanticipated — victory against the world’s largest retailer. On July 11,
Wal-Mart has disappeared below the mud on a former sod farm just outside of Chicago. On March 9, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart was knocking
After a couple of years on the sidelines, a seven year old, multi-million lawsuit against Wal-Mart by its workers is now back on the clock.
Wal-Mart has helped drive another American retailing icon offshore. This week Hanes (HBI, Hanesbrands Inc) announced that it was abandoning four production plants in North
On July 11, 2005, Sprawl-Busters reported that residents in Etna, Ohio had organized to fight off a proposed 203,819 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter on the east
Build one, and tear one down — there’s no real gain from a North Carolina developer’s plan to build an enormous, 518,205 s.f. retail mall
On February 12, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that a company called U.S. Properties Group (USPG) was busy buying up dead Wal-Marts, this time a 99,364 s.f.store
On August 10, 2004, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart was left with no place to park its cars in Estero, Florida. A Hearing Examiner in Lee
Once again, a Wal-Mart green light has led directly to a courtroom, not a ribbon-cutting. The latest legal battle is in North Whitehall, Pennsylvania, where
Home Depot’s proposal to build a 139,390 s.f. store in Jackson, California has fallen down a mine shaft — and it doesn’t look like anyone
In August 2005, Wal-Mart announced that it wanted to build a distribution center in Merced, California. Almost immediately a group was formed to prevent that
In a stunning victory, citizens in Clovis, California have shamed their Mayor and City Council into reversing their vote approving a Wal-Mart. They had to
On May 14, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that despite the fact that Wal-Mart already has a discount store in Yucca Valley, at 29 Palms Highway, it
Things are about to come to a head in Cordova, Tennessee over a controversial Wal-Mart superstore project. On July 8, 2008, Sprawl-Busters noted that Wal-Mart
This week Sprawl-Busters received the following alert from a resident in Escondido, California: “Wal-Mart is at it again, this time in Escondido. Wal-Mart is contacting
On November 23, 2005, Sprawl-Busters reported that voters in Lorain, Ohio had rejected a Wal-Mart supercenter at the polls. When a Home Depot project followed
Once again, Wal-Mart’s inability to work with neighbors has led to a courtroom. On June 10, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that the village of East Dundee,
A jury in Durham, North Carolina is in the middle of its deliberations this week over whether or not to charge Home Depot with negligence
It’s the third vote that finally counts. City officials in Iowa City, Iowa have one chance left to deny a wasteful Wal-Mart proposal that will
On June 6, 2006, Sprawl-Busters reported the controversial death of a Home Depot project in El Cajon. We reported that citizens fighting Home Depot in
How sweet it is. The residents of the Sugar House community in Salt Lake City are savoring the victory today over Wal-Mart — but the
Once there was a city called Niceville. Niceville, Florida. In 2007, there were 12,370 nice people living in Niceville. When a developer came along and
A Wal-Mart lawyer had the nerve this week to charge local political maneuvering in a case where the retailer brought in a former Governor to
Wal-Mart discount store #2560 sits along Ocean Gateway road in Berlin, Maryland. According to local officials, the store is “over-shopped.” If that’s true, it’s not
There’s some strange alchemy going on in Ohio. The Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio has learned how to convert water into jobs. Unfortunately, many of those
Wal-Mart wants the small city of Spooner, Wisconsin to spoon-feed them money. On July 10, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart, the icon of the free
City officials in North Tonawanda, New York — from the Mayor on down — think they can grow their economy by cannibalizing their retail sector.
This case dates back to September 25, 2007, when Sprawl-Busters reported that the tiny township of North Whitehall, Pennsylvania — population roughly 2,000 — had
On July 29, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart was trying to sugar-coat a project in Sugar House, one of Salt Lake City, Utah’s oldest neighborhoods.
On July 11, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that Supervisors in Moon township Pennsylvania had taken one giant step for mankind — by voting against a preliminary
A Wal-Mart developer from Tennessee has lost his appeal in a Kentucky Circuit Court. On July 23, Circuit Judge Steve Hayden upheld a decision of
This could be the final chapter in the Tale of Two Cities. On April 5, 2006, Sprawl-Busters reported that the village of East Dundee, Illinois
On May 26, 2008 Sprawl-Busters reported that village officials in Vernon Hills, Illinois, were saying that a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter had been cancelled. This week,
On July 23, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that the city council in Barstow, California, had approved an enormous Wal-Mart distribution center.Wal-Mart already has 7 distribution centers
On May 30, 2007, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart had become ensnared in a legal mess in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia. The town of Blacksburg
The war over a Wal-Mart superstore in Santa Rosa, California got a little noisier this week. A proposed Wal-Mart superstore has resulted in a lawsuit,
Wal-Mart is ready to build another store in Phoenix, Arizona, but after more than two years of trying, it keeps losing developers. On April 11,
The good people of Weirton, West Virginia already have one Wal-Mart. Store #1948 is located on Three Springs Drive Road in this small community of
Wal-Mart made national news recently for trying to influence how their employees will vote in the upcoming Presidential campaign in November, demonizing the Democrats for
It must sound strange to American consumers to hear that the government of Puerto Rico this week “warned” Wal-Mart to raise its prices on milk
In early March of 2008, the Greene County Record newspaper in Virginia reported that site preparation work was well underway at the “Gateway Center” project
In June of 2007, it looked like Wal-Mart was on a firm course to build a 101,100 s.f. store on 17 acres in Dunville, Ontario,
Wal-Mart has a discount store on Crater Lake Highway in Medford, Oregon. But the company has been trying to replace it with a larger supercenter
The strategies written here were produced by Sprawl-Busters in 2006 at the request of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), mainly for citizen groups that were fighting Walmart. But the tips for fighting unwanted development apply to any project—whether its fighting Dollar General, an Amazon warehouse, or a Home Depot.
Big projects, or small, these BATTLEMART TIPS will help you better understand what you are up against, and how to win your battle.