After more than a decade of political resistance, Walmart has finally found a way around the city’s Big-Box ordinance and plans to open a store at El Con Mall.

Inside Tucson Business has details here.

We wonder: While the perimeter has a lively collection of shops and restaurants, will anything ever open up inside El Con again? It’s been a ghost mall for a long time now.

This article appears in May 27 – Jun 2, 2010.

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5 replies on “Walmart Springs Up At El Con”

  1. “Wal-Mart has finally found a way around the city’s Big-Box ordinance…” (Posted by Jim Nintzel on Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM)

    The problem with your piece, Jim Nintzel, is that you do not describe or explore Wal Mart’s workaround. What exactly did they do? How did they do it? Why were they able to accomplish it now and not during Bushistan? Details, insight, ramifications, and journalism please. At some point beating the awful ADS and being coy doesn’t cut it…

  2. I believe the large rodent infestation is likely the hold-up on El Con’s reemergence. I recently took a walk through the ghost-halls with my family, and stopped when I heard a large pack of mice/rats tramping around in the ceiling above the entrance to a closed outlet. Needless to say, I was rather disgusted.

  4. Isn’t there some kind of law against a wal mart and a target existing in the ‘same’ shopping center?

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