In Today's Least Surprising News Ever, Yes, a Walmart Grocery Is Coming to Lower Greenville

By Robert Wilonsky Wed., Feb. 1 2012 at 5:46 PM

Categories: Biz, City Hall, Development

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Speaking of Walmart (told you) ...

In the end, turns out, I didn't need Mitchell Rasansky to tell me what everyone already knew -- or guessed, anyhow. Because, as I discovered this morning, the permits were filed with the city two months ago and approved December 29. So, yes, brace yourself, Lower Greenville. You are indeed about to get a Walmart Neighborhood Market in the building formerly occupied by that Whole Foods.

Well, actually, the neighborhood market thing's not confirmed; Walmart officials haven't returned calls or emails sent this morning, and folks in Sustainable Development and Building Inspection can't say for sure. "They never identified it as a neighborhood market," says one of Dallas's senior building officials.

But city officials confirm: There will be a Walmart going in almost directly across from the planned Trader Joe's on the old Arcadia site. And it will occupy only the former Whole Foods and not the next-door Blockbuster: Plans call for filling 34,630 square feet with coolers for meat and produce and dairy products, a bakery and a pharmacy, for starters. Per Walmart's website, "A typical store is about 42,000 square feet." The plan also notes: "No late hours."

Tried calling Rasansky. He's out of the country till Monday.

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Don't forget the new Kroger going in across from City Place. Where the theater used to be.
Fair warning! The day this Wally World opens I am showing up in my banana sling, fuzzy bedroom slippers and cowboy hat. Some people want to make it on American Idol, some people want to make it on the 'WalMart people' website. I set the bar really low.
What small business? It was a Whole Foods & Blockbuster before and then it sat empty for YEARS.
Shoot! Wrong, just wrong! Wrong people, wrong traffic, displacing small business...
Aldis is in Dallas now? First ran into one of those up north of Hudson NY (birthplace of some fella named William Worth - the namesake of that town next to you) and it was rather strange. Looked like an old five and dime with food instead of dry goods.
No late hours sounds odd for them. Will they also boot travelers who want to sleep in the lot overnight in their campers, etc.?
Don't know how much of it's snobbery by those who live there, and how much of it is genuine disgust at Walmart's corporate behavior. Bet you wouldn't hear nearly as many complaints if it was a SuperTarget.
Avi? Or maybe his mom..
I can throw a rock and hit Super Mercado from my backyard. It's the only place I buy avocados and tortillas.
Cue the hipster rage. I've never been so happy to actually move to the 'burbs.
I peed on your lawn.
Is there ANYTHING you like about Uptown? Or would you rather move to Austin or Ft. Worth as well?
fuuuuck. i don't want to be a whiny, pissy shithead. but this sucks. i go to walmart once or twice per year based solely on necessity or if it's the only option in a strange locale. but how can anyone with any sense for the betterment of lower greenville just let this happen?
Although adding another grocer to the area is ultimately a bad idea, I'm glad something is going in that spot even if it is a Wal-Mart neighborhood store. I'm just disappointed that Sunflower will likely be the biggest loser in the battle for market share in the area. Sunflower is one of my favorite stores to buy produce. The Wal-Mart just seems superfluous and against any city planning logic. It seems like it is a way for Wal-Mart to lean on Trader Joes to prevent them gaining too much market share. It's like the Walgreens-CVS strategy to open across the street from each other so that neither can be too successful.
How about " Keep Lower Greenville Drunk! " campaign.
Fuck the bowling alley. Fuck all you assholes that don't live here and just show up on the weekends to shit all over our neighborhood and then go back to your bland suburbian hell. I prefer the folks south of us than you douchebags.
So then you mean south of Gaston. You grasp of E. Dallas geography sucks.
No sunshine, more like Alcalde st, Columbia, and S Henderson.
What a bunch of Shopping Snobs. Thank goodness our area dodged the neighbor hood wal mart .... A long sadistic laugh goes here.
I'll never set foot inside. As they say, 'there goes the neighborhood'.
Can the Waltons pay their employees enough monies to get off food stamps and Medicad? The Waltons don't create jobs. They perpetuate extreme greed, co-dependency, and increase environmental decay. Tax payers provide food and healthcare for Walton's workers. Get out of my back yard, Walmart.
I live a few blocks away and I'm looking forward to it opening. I prefer walking to using my car, and while I preferred the Whole Foods, Walmart will have to do.
Uhhh..have u, like, I don't know, driven around Fort Worth?
Yep. The only drawback is your're still living in fffing FORT WORTH..no thanks
Have fun in Fort Worthless...I trust that means you will no longer be bitching on this forum?
You WANT a wal-mart?!?! We have a similar concentration of stores. (Actually, throw in 2 krogers and 2 targets into the same figure you gave) Thats exactly why wal-mart shluld kick rocks. I will not be shopping there....pieriod.
Another step towards Dallas becoming a World Class City. Wallyworld definitely says World Class!
Super Mercado #4 on Columbia at Beacon and Malone's on Columbia
Live Oak? As in Swiss, Junius Heights, Munger Heights, etc? Yeah, they would just hate that.
I use to live on West 7th before all the work got started. I would move back there in a heartbeat if it were feasible for me (commute would be brutal). You got the Kimball, Ft. Worth Modern, the new kids science thing, downtown (with actual parking and stuff to do), trinity park, zoo, gardens, all kinds of stuff right there in about a 3 or 4 mile radius. It's pretty amazing what Fort Worth has done with that area.
If it's anything like the one in Uptown it will be terrible. Terrible selection, plenty of homeless shoppers, long lines and terrible organization. Plus the last two times I have gone there the door near their meat department has reeked of what I imagine is disgusting rotting meat. The smell is just unbearable and it it is that same way the next time I go I'm calling the health department because something is not right.
This is gonna sully a lot of east dallasites egos....hehehe
Ever visit the "People of Walmart" site? All the "weird" you can handle.
Fantastic! Isn't Trader Joe's to open up where the Arcadia used to be? I sure hope so! Sun Flowers Market, Whole Foods, WalMart Market, Trader Joe's, and right up the road Central Market and another Whole Foods! So where's Angela Hunt's kick ass vision of Dallas being Austin in this? Has anyone tried pulling out onto Greenville from, say, Oram since the "transformation"? If there already hasn't been, there will surely be some nasty accidents. You can't see a thing around the horizontally parked cars. And because of the horizontal parking lanes there is less parking than before...and you get a-wipes who take up two spaces rendering half a section unparkable. The Lower Greenville project is a failure. It has been since its inception. But hey, bring on Hunt's next brilliant idea: TROLLEY CARS FOR EVERYONE!!!!!
I miss HEB *so* much.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. No cool bowling alley so take this Walmart HA!! Is that "family friendly" enough for you twerps? And we know y'all hate outsiders ...I hope they overrun the store from south of Live Oak. Heehee
Right, like Ft. Worth allowing big box retailers to knock holes in the historic Montgomery Ward building to allow for 'more visibility'? So much better than Dallas, right? Enjoy all the chain restaurants in Sundance Square.
We have a Walmart Neighborhood Market in my area and it's our favorite go-to store for just about everything. Lots cheaper than Tom Thumb, for instance. I'd prefer to shop CM but it's just too far from home to be my market of choice. I'll travel ANYWHERE, however, to shop at Trader Joe's!
Well Trader Joe's, when you decide not to bother with the competition, the old Bomb Factory in Deep Ellum has the space and available parking to make for a nice grocery store.
Is this where we start the "Keep Lower Greenville Weird" campaign.
You should learn to shop around. Each market has their own specialty. We almost exclusively get our produce from Sunflower, but we get nice breads from CM, and frozen foods from Kroger for example.
The only one of those I would routinely shop at is Kroger. The others are either to expensive or the selection (and/or quality) is to low. Though, I would probably hit up Central Market for fresh produce.
Its another fine reason im leaving Dallas later this year..this city lacks common sense..you'd never see this type of stupidity in Ft. Worth...
Yawn.
Is this the "retail" vision the neighborhood groups had in mind when they started cock blocking any business owner that didn't treat alcohol like the liquid plague? Now we just need the butler of Sam Walton's grandson to helicopter in wearing a flight suit brandishing a big "Mission Accomplished" banner like Dubyah did on the aircraft carrier.
"did I miss any?" Red Coleman's Red-E-Mart......C'MON!
Now, if H-E-B's (The Real Ones) came to Dallas I would be happy!
So, within a 3 mile radius of my house, I have: Sunflower,2x Fiesta, Central Trader Joe's 2x Wal-Mart Market Wal-Mart/Sam's Club Stack 2x Whole Foods 3x Super-Target Signature Kroger 4x Tom Thombs Central Market Albertson's Aldi's Did I miss any? We are officially in the Super Market Grocery Capital of the World.
I HATE Mitchell Rasansky. Almost as much as I HATE Walmart. UGH! What is up with the idiots running this city? Putting a school in Deep Ellum? Building Walmarts everywhere? Building a Tollroad in the Trinity? God, it's time to move to Austin.
I was so hoping for Elliot's Hardware.
A charter school, obviously...
Now the big question, who's gonna move in next door?
There goes the neighborhood...
come to preston forest/preston royal. we have a whole foods, a central market, 2 tom thumbs (and 3 chase banks) in a 1.2 mile stretch.
LUL! Don't want bars and a bowling alley? Here..have a Walmart!
I'm not going on any type of Wal-mart tirade as I'm sure others will cover thoroughly. I think that if it's a neighborhood Market done correctly, they may enhance the neighborhood. However, they need to tear down that entire fing building and put it at street level with lighted parking in the back. By moving into an existing butt ugly building set so far back, they're on their way to being a terrible neighbor right off the bat. I'm interested to see what they have in mind.
This should be good *popcorn.gif*