Monsey, NY – Large Turnout To Oppose Proposed Wal-Mart

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    Monsey, NY – The proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter on Route 59 in Monsey would lead to as many as 3 million vehicles visiting it a year, a traffic engineer said at a meeting at the Spring Valley Village Hall.

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    Brian Ketcham said an average day would find 8,000 vehicles at the new Wal-Mart, with up to 10,500 at the store on Sundays.
    There would be more traffic, more intensely felt on Route 59 as well as nearby local roads, over longer periods of time, he said. “The consequences are huge,” said Ketcham, a Brooklyn traffic and environmental engineer who was hired by the Neighborhood Retail Alliance, which opposes the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter.

    The alliance, a Manhattan-based group that says it fights for the rights of small businesses, sponsored a public information forum at Spring Valley Village Hall, where people like Ketcham exclusively pointed out the negative effects the box store would have on traffic, public safety, air quality and the local economy. “We are not here to lay out the pros and cons, so much as the cons,” alliance director Richard Lipsky told the 200 people who packed the auditorium.

    The proposed 215,000-square-foot store would be built on the 22-acre site of the former Rockland Drive-In Theater in Monsey. It would have a full-service grocery, a 1,750-square-foot gas station, a tire-lubrication service area and 992 parking spots, and would add 500 jobs to the area and could revitalize a section of the Route 59 shopping district, the developer, National Realty & Development Corp. of Purchase, has said.
    But Spring Valley Deputy Mayor Noramie Jasmin opposed it because they had local concerns. “It will kill our community,” she said.


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    goombash
    goombash
    17 years ago

    I agree with mark 100%
    the wall_mart in airmont is a ‘micro-mini’ wall mart – not a mainframe as it should be. – a big walmart would carry the heimeshe brand as it does in Monticello.

    I think the ‘traffic’ thing is nothing but a ploy “an-tsi-reden” the yidden. – it is really the local store owners finding some competition that are looking for ulterior motives and finding the excuse in ‘traffic’ problems.

    I want to find just “one” community that got “killed” becuase a wal-mart opened up there.

    if it did, then nobody in the community would go buy at that wal-mart and it would probably suffer great business losses.

    PassaicYid
    PassaicYid
    17 years ago

    We dont need any more traffic on 59

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    17 years ago

    there already is a walmart a 2 minute drive up the 59–who needs another one. and besides which–what kind of “people” will we find going into that store besides the heimishe olam–the shvartze and the partericanah–(you knows vat i means)–and we have enough of those already. and also–with the kind of services they give at the other walmart–pulleeeease–the worst ever. i guess looking at who they hire it is no surprise.

    pro–it will bring the prices down and everyone could use that big time!

    con–it will destroy local stores and all of us need parnassah.
    and so……

    peretz
    peretz
    17 years ago

    if you have free enterprise in the usa why cant wal mart not open in monsey? till we stop buying all our products from china there will be a demand for stores like wal mart

    Camp Runamok
    Camp Runamok
    17 years ago

    Do you think Wally’s will stock special “heimishe” brands in that store? Given the demands they make of all their suppliers (“We want this product for all our stores and this is the price we will pay. Take it or leave it”)? I think that highly unlikely. Those who insist on CRC/Nitra/Tartikov/etc. only are going to be disappointed.

    Now, if you can make do with “just” an O-U that is another matter.

    mark levin
    mark levin
    17 years ago

    A WalMart would be nice. Time to show inzer mentshin there how much things SHOULD really cost and how much they are getting ripped off.