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icejammer wrote:That rumor is at least 5 years old and probably not realistic.

Still, the City is trying to get something going at that site, so we shall see.

Could there be another Walmart store coming to Council Bluffs?

The city council Monday evening will address a financial incentive requested by the nationwide firm.

According to information on the council’s agenda, the national retail chain has contracts for the acquisition of four parcels of property south of Nash Boulevard and North 16th Street and has proposed the construction of 155,400 square feet of retail space. . . .

Pending council approval, the so-called tax-increment-financing rebate would cover 10 years and the maximum the company would receive back from the city is $3 million. . . .

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has reduced the amount of financial assistance it wants from the city of Council Bluffs to bring a second retail store in the community, local officials said Wednesday. . . .

Wal-Mart is requesting almost a million less in tax increment financing rebates from local taxes, down from its original request of $5 million that was to come in the form of $3 million in TIF rebates from sales tax revenue in that area and similar rebates of $2 million from property taxes.

The Council Bluffs City Council postponed action at its last meeting to get more information on the project and to seek a more agreeable financial request. Several council members expressed concern that the $5 million amount was too high. . . .

Engineers for the company, Walsh said, have provided a rough, preliminary estimate of $10 million to clear the land for the store’s construction. They’ve also told him, Walsh added, that the estimate could be off 5 percent, maybe 10 percent. If the actual cost comes in less than $10 million, the company would be willing to take the difference off its most recent financial assistance request, he said. . . .

In case local folks are wondering, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is continuing its preparation to build a second store in Council Bluffs. . .

As city and store representatives continue to negotiate an acceptable financial assistance plan for the project, preliminary design plans have already come forth, according to Rose Brown, an official with the Community Development Department . . . .

The City Council unanimously approved a letter of intent ...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. would acquire four parcels of land in that area, demolish existing structures and prepare the site for development. It would complete construction of the new store no later than Dec. 31, 2013.
Wal-Mart plans to construct a Super Center, totaling 184,000 square feet, near North 16th Street and Nash Boulevard, Jobeun said.The existing Walmart store in the Manawa Power Centre in the southern part of town totals 200,000 square feet
The anticipated opening is September 2013.

A second Walmart store in Council Bluffs is moving closer to being built.

The city’s Planning Commission Tuesday approved the giant retailer’s development plans for a 186,528-square-foot Super Center at the southwest corner of Nash Boulevard and North 16th Street.

Pending City Council approval, construction could begin late this year or early 2013, with the opening set in the first or second quarter of 2014, commission members were told. . . .

. . . The City Council will hold a public hearing on a proposed development agreement between the city and the giant retailer for its planned new store on North 16th Street.

“They’re planning to build a 186,528 square-foot store,” said Don Gross, community development director. “We anticipate 300 full-time and part-time jobs.”

The proposed Super Store would be located in the 1700 block of North 16th Street by Nash Boulevard in the Bluffs Northway Shopping Center. Besides general retailing, the store will feature a pharmacy, a grocery, bakery, deli, optical, seasonal items like lawn/garden products, etc., except car care. The entry would face the south and feature the large glassy areas that are a part of the new look for the retailer. . . .

Walmart, which plans to build a 186,000-square-foot Supercenter at the southwest corner of Nash Boulevard and North 16th Street, has received two permits from Council Bluffs officials — one to demolish the old Gordmans and Super 7 hotel and a second to build the new retail and grocery center.

The landscape on North 16th Street in the Bluffs Northway Shopping Center is changing drastically in preparation for a new Walmart Super Store.

A motel building was recently razed, and workers are well underway in doing the same to the former Gordman’s Department Store, according to Steve Carmichael, the city’s chief building official. . . .

advcomp2019 wrote:I was down by this site. It is still dirt and a small parking lot.

Another thing that I seen was part of the old Hy-Vee was missing. I have been trying to figure out what is going on with it. Are they going to make the strip mall larger or build part of a new strip mall and take down the old one?

skinzfan23 wrote:I drove by the new Walmart this weekend.  It appears that the roof is nearly finished, but the north end of the building is not closed in yet.  I am wondering what their anticipated opening date is.  The parking lot is mostly finished.  By looking at everything, it would seem like they would be ready to open by fall.