Green light for Walmart in Greece

By The Associated Press
Posted: 12:28 pm Fri, August 5, 2011

GREECE — After a nearly four-year delay, Walmart is building a supercenter in an upstate New York suburb.

A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for next Thursday in Greece.

The town granted approval in 2007 for the retail giant to move ahead with a 146,000-square-foot store at Northgate Plaza. Construction was delayed by a series of legal challenges from two activist groups that were knocked down in 2009 and 2010.

The plaza’s owners began demolishing portions of the 1950s-era shopping center last fall to make way for the store.

Walmart says it will have more than 30 aisles of general merchandise and a full-service grocery section with a bakery and deli.