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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (83)11/8/2004 5:46:18 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 224720
 
Vermont has managed to allow Wal-Mart in without the ugly box issues faced everywhere else. The... liberal, pro-environment culture let Wal-Mart in only if the company agreed to locate within existing cities and towns - no breaking ground for new urban sprawl.

In Rutland, for example Wal-Mart anchors an inner-city shopping center that has revitalized the downtown.

However, there is a battle brewing:

During the 1990s Wal-Mart located three of its four Vermont stores in existing buildings and kept them relatively modest in size. Now, however, the world's largest company is planning to saturate the state -- which has only 600,000 residents -- with seven new mammoth mega-stores, each with a minimum of 150,000 square feet. Wal-Mart's plans are sure to attract an influx of other big-box retailers. The likely result: degradation of the Green Mountain State's unique sense of place, economic disinvestment in historic downtowns, loss of locally-owned businesses, and an erosion of the sense of community that seems an inevitable by-product of big-box sprawl. With deep regret, the national trust takes the rare step of re-listing Vermont as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

ptvermont.org
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