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Cornelius officials assured the Forest Grove School Board Monday night that Wal-Mart is indeed planning to open its doors in the city by 2010.
“Wal-Mart went into molasses mode” last year after the economy tanked and construction costs skyrocketed, conceded Terry Keyes, Cornelius city engineer. But recent conversations with the big-box retail giant have revived hopes that clerks sporting the chain’s trademark royal blue vests will soon be seen scurrying around town.
“We’ve been told it’s a 2009 project for them,” said City Manager Dave Waffle.
“We are confident they’re coming,” Keyes added.
School officials’ interest in the project stems from the fact that the super center’s building site at Fourth Avenue and Adair Street in Cornelius drains into a parcel of district-owned property adjacent to Neil Armstrong Middle School and Fern Hill Elementary School.
Officials from Cornelius, Forest Grove and the school district that serves both communities would like to install a large drainpipe between Baseline Street and Heather Avenue to mitigate flooding concerns in the Tarrybrook neighborhood east of both school campuses, Keyes said. He noted that homes in the area are already subject to flooding during heavy rains.
Board member Anna Tavera-Weller, who lives in Cornelius, said her children sometimes had to trek through deep mud between home and school. Cornelius Mayor Bill Bash had similar memories of regular flooding.
“My kids used to walk from Eighth Street to Neil Armstrong, and I remember the soaked socks, shoes and pants very well,” he said.
Largely because Wal-Mart promised to pick up the project’s expense, the school district is open to installing a 36-inch drainage pipe and a 10-foot paved walking path on the site this summer.
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