The formal groundbreaking for the new Walmart on North Chicago Avenue has been set: It’s June 6. And, if all goes to plan, the store will open its doors in March of 2013.
As you know, the City Council has granted several approvals of the project in the past 18 months, most recently approving borrowing and spending related to cleanup of the site in April. The land sale — including a city-owned parcel fronting Chicago Avenue and a private parcel west of it — closed that week.
The site has sat largely untouched since then as project developers awaited approval from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources related to demolition of the property west of what is now 11th Avenue.
The groundbreaking starts at 9 a.m., and local government officials and representatives from Walmart and Randolph Construction, the project’s general contractor, are expected to attend.
I’ll keep you posted as the project progresses.
And you can learn more about the project in this one-pager.
South Milwaukee Blog 
It’s good to hear that the project is FINALLY starting. It’s not good to hear that the city is announcing this. The anti-business folks have already started putting up signs in the vicinity again and if you visit their website, it looks like they are planning on being obnoxious at the groundbreaking, as well as some sort of “legal” challenge. Not sure what they would have to go on, but after observing Wisconsin politics during the last year, I’m not sure that it matters.
I wish they would just get over it already, have they not tried to stop this project nummerous times and still the are building. This is a good for the community and I am ready for Wal-Mart to get up and running. “Yes Wal-Mart”