Wal-Mart interest in Shirlington prompts zoning questions

The prospect that the nation's biggest retailer is interested in building a 50,000-square-foot store in the Shirlington area of Arlington has prompted the county board to consider whether it should require big-box retail stores to get special scrutiny.

Wal-Mart is reportedly looking into building one of its urban-style consumer emporiums along I-395 at Four Mile Run, now an industrial site, but close enough to a residential area to prompt the support of two neighborhood associations including one that represents Nauck, one of the county's oldest historically African American areas.

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N.C. Aizenman 15 Oct, 2011


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