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Originally Posted by whit_x
I don't think so, since Wal-Mart is waiting for the impending sale of the Tops chain (very close, if you read the papers and talk to enough people)/closing of the current Tops store on Meadow St (very possible, based on the drop in sales and the impending sense of doom from the employees I still know there) to submit their plans for expansion of the Wal-Mart store to a SuperCenter (based on the piece of land that sits empty, plus the rumors and innuendo that Wal-Mart associates and others are spreading). In other words, I would be willing to lay money that by the end of 2010, Ithaca will have a Wal-Mart Supercenter.
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Yeah, and the "conscious consumers" of Ithaca will be complaining along the way. I had to go through the North Side of Ithaca yesterday to get to the DMV, and I was shocked to see houses under construction in already established neighbourhoods. I don't even think they were tied to the IHA.