HeraldNet.com – Local news: Wal-Mart to open in Monroe after city reverses its position

By Alejandro Dominguez, Herald Writer

MONROE — The financially ailing city that didn’t want a Wal-Mart in town last year when it could have made $9.6 million on the deal is now welcoming the nation’s largest retailer with open arms.

Wal-Mart on Wednesday announced it will be building a store at the North Kelsey street site, land the City Council last year refused to sell to a developer partly because of concerns that Wal-Mart might build there. The announcement comes……..

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