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I am wondering if this information has been updated? The bridge is still unfinished but the land looks recently in development again. I don’t want Walmart BUT I do want to know what is going on either way. 🙂
Wishing for Costco
Noooooo not Walmart! We deserve something better then that!!
How about a Publix?
With Fletcher Partners(aka Biltmore Farms) clout, we might actually get some traffic relief. Anyone paying attention knows the DOT caters to the Biltmore bunch’s needs……the DOT is still in business aren’t they? I paid my 50cents a gallon at the pump twice today.
Actually. The Alamo is just a RUMOR. With more and more people discovering Asheville, a movie theatre is great. Beats another hotel. 😉
What happened to the fact that this project was on hold because of the contaminated ground discovered at the BASF site?
The ground over at bleachery blvd walmart was contaminated due to sayles bleachery. The cleaned it up
Who needs another low paying employer like Walmart in this community? Walmart has a long history of killing mom and pop businesses and forcing it’s “associates” into food stamp territory to survive. We don’t need another Walmart.
I completely Agree with you, This is the last thing that we need. The people in the area deserve better and how many Wal-Marts do we need in a 20 mile radius!
Can you name 3 “mom and pop” stores in the Candler area that might suffer? And, if it’s just mom and pop, are any other employees existent? If the $10/hr associates actually show up and work, rather than whining about their low pay and calling out sick all the time, they will be promoted and find themselves earning a decent wage. I have seen it with my own son who started as a cashier at 18, became a supervisor at 20, graduated college in 5 years while working full time, is now making good money as a manager, has zero student loans, and over $20k in retirement savings from his contributions and company matching. So please take your tired old Bernie babble elsewhere.
Mom and Pop stores don’t pay S@#T or pay health insurance…Walmart does.
FINALLY! We’ve been waiting for a Walmart over on the west part of town for 15 years.
Never thought I’d see the day where Candler starts looking like South Asheville, this is surely the END
actually its ENKA, not Candler. Candler is WEST of the Vulcan Quarry.
Another theater? (Alamo at Asheville Mall and this will make seven) In a city this small? With the movie and theater industry suffering financial losses? WTF, over!?!?
Multiplexes are having difficulty making profit. There is a correlation between increasing admission and concession prices and declining attendance.
And yet here we are building two more theaters in a town that already has 3 multiplexes, a brew-house theater (I forgot to include Asheville Pizza in the previous post) and two art house theaters.
I already avoid two of the multiplexes for their use of assigned seating, and the third I only go to when the film isn’t showing elsewhere. Thankfully, most of the movies I like are art house films.
A local movie reviewer that I admire actually RECOMMENDS paying for the overpriced concessions stating that without them, the theaters would go out of business. If this is true, then the entire business model needs to be reassessed.
My family is a fan of the assigned seating. It’s nice to pick your seats at home and just walk right in.
The Carolina has definitely suffered since its acquisition by Cinemark: assigned seating that only half the audience follows, not as many one-off screenings and simulcasts, worse menus, and worst of all, no Cheerwine.
Actually. The Alamo is just a RUMOR. With more and more people discovering Asheville, a movie theatre is great. Beats another hotel. 😉
Asheville… SMALL?!?!? ROFLMAO!
A minor quibble, but a development is not “mixed-use” if the only mix is commercial uses. To be truly mixed-use, a development has to include a residential component. Labeling a development like this as mixed-use used to be one of the weaselly little ways that developers got around being accused of developing suburban sprawl.
Mixed use development does not always have residential uses. Enka Center is a mixed use development with proposed retail, recreational, and industrial uses.
As mentioned, Ingle’s will replace the existing Ingle’s #31 with a 74,651-square-foot supermarket accompanied by convenience store I-Market #731. A 62,000-square-foot anchor, a 55,000-square-foot anchor, and a Verizon store are proposed in the Plaza West redevelopment.
Asheville’s Technical Review Committee will consider the proposal Monday, 2 October.
I wonder if specialty retailers Academy Sports + Outdoors and Hobby Lobby may join Ingle’s #31/I-Market #731 at Plaza West.
thought Academy Sports was supposed to go to Airport road?
This could be an additional store location.
A Walmart Supercenter store is a hypermarket. Competing hypermarkets include Kroger Marketplace, Meijer, and SuperTarget. The Walmart proposed for Enka Center is a Walmart Supercenter hypermarket.