The Plymouth, MN City Council is set to meet this Tuesday, November 22, 2011 to put a final vote on the year long study which will guide the redevelopment of the Four Seasons Mall site which is owned by Wal-Mart. The meeting will be held at Plymouth City Hall at 3400 Plymouth Blvd. starting at 7pm.
Wal-Mart had purchased over a year ago. The city has completed its study of the site and has created a variety of plans and guidelines for the site. There have been open house meetings that the city has conducted to discuss various guiding options for redevelopment with concerned citizens.
- Four Seasons Mall Plymouth MN
The Plymouth November/December newsletter has some information about the matter on page 2. There is also information available at the city’s web site as they have a specific page dedicated to the Four Seasons Mall Redevelopment.
Wal-Mart purchased this property one year ago for $10.6 million with hopes to build a new Wal-Mart and redevelop the site. It’s unclear how big the store would be that Wal-Mart was hoping to build at the site. According to Wal-Mart’s web site, their average store is 108,000 square feet. The City of Plymouth is proposing a retail store there no larger than 89,000 square feet.
The City of Plymouth has published an extensive amount of information at the Four Seasons Mall Redevelopment page but you will also want to make sure you check out the draft of the site concepts.
This vote will be an important one and will set the tone and direction for the redevelopment of the Four Seasons Mall site located at Highway 169 and Rockford Road on the east site of Plymouth.
Walmart has been breaking every rule in the “Respect The Ones You Are Around” ever since they sneakily bought the land at Four Seasons Mall. Our community does not want a big box store on our heals. In fact, I live not even five blocks away. No neighbors want it because of the overwhelming amounts of traffic, crime, and especially small business. “Mom and Pop Shops” are the root of the economy and if an international company that made $422 BILLION last year, it just won’t fly. Their inappropriate actions against the ones that live here just to make a dollar or two will just make enemies. Walmart only pays minimum wage which will get our economy nowhere because it kills the small business jobs that pay better. Our community is also afraid of our stores already here, like Cub, Rainbow, or our very own Minnesota Nice(that gives over $3 million every week to schools and more to the community) Target. We will all take a big blow from Walmart if they erect an 100,000 sqaure foot box.
Walmart’s history doesn’t help either. Sweatshops, small town downtown destruction, low wages for workers which makes wellfare recipients that us Americans pay for, and many many more. The human rights just isn’t there… And in fact, three of ten richest in America own Walmart. They have $65 BILLION collectively. And yet they cut half of the recipients with healthcare last year. There argument for cutting the program is invalid and absolutly not okay.
Think of those living at the rims of the developing site and what the company stands for. Not just the “convenience” or anything else. We are the ones affected. Ones living miles away, especially in other states like Arkansas, should not be deciding our community’s fate.
Please listen to us living so close to the controversial site and build something community oriented like the other three possibilities listed at the Plymouth meeting a few months ago.
Hi Sam, thanks for stopping by to comment. I don’t know which way this will go with the city. I do believe if they let Wal-Mart build it will need to be a scaled back store compared to what they normally build.