This summer Wal-Mart will open up a new 112,000 s.f. superstore in Bennington,Vermont, a small community of 15,400 in the southwest corner of the state.
On May 12, 2008, Sprawl-Busters reported that a developer in Bennington, Vermont had disappeared for months, leaving his plans for an expanded Wal-Mart discount store
Wal-Mart is going nowhere fast in Vermont. The state currently has only 4 Wal-Marts, and now that it is trying to expand the ones it
Local residents opposed to a Wal-Mart expansion suffered a setback last night, as voters in Bennington, Vermont opted in a special election to remove a
When Wal-Mart encounters a zoning law it doesn’t like, it simply dips into its corporate treasury, buys itself a public relations firm, adds some petition
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.