the former Gottschalks building in the Bayshore Mall is now owned by the Eureka-based property management company Carrington Co. who, on June 28th submitted a building application permit to the city of eureka for $4.6 million dollars worth of contruction to the building on behalf of its tenant who's name they are withholding.
it is no secret who t...his "mystery tenant" is. The Walmart corporation has attempted to expand into eureka once before on the Ballon track property in 1999 and was banned from the city by the voters.
now its 2011 and 12 years have come and gone and now Walmart is attempting to move into the city in secrecy by signing confidentiality agreements with Pattison Christensen, an asset manager for Carrington Co, and this time they wont need any zoning changes approved like they tried for in 1999 meaning they can just push the people of eureka and the whole county to the side and build as they please.
you maybe wondering why we should be against a walmart expansion here and the answer to that is not a simple one because the damage to communities as well as local and the national economy is so vast. few examples
1.Wal-Mart drives down wages in urban areas, with an annual loss of at least $3 billion dollars in earnings for retail workers.
2.Wal-Mart workers on public assistance programs in California comes at a cost to taxpayers of an estimated $86 million annually
3.one 200-person Wal-Mart store may result in a cost to federal taxpayers of $420,750 per year - about $2,103 per employee
4.at least 59 complaints have been issued by the National Labor Relations Board on the basis that Wal-Mart uses illegal surveillance techniques to monitor union activity inside and outside their stores.
5."Suits Say Wal-Mart Workers Forced To Toil Off The Clock," New York Times, June 25, 2002
6.statisticians estimate that the company underpaid its Texas workers by $150 million over four years by not paying them for the many times they worked during their daily 15-minute breaks
7. in California, a class-action lawsuit potentially involving up to 215,000 current and former Wal-Mart and Sam's Club employees "charges that Wal-Mart deleted thousands of hours of time worked from employees' payroll records by erasing overtime hours"
8.Federal poverty level = $17,650 Wage of average walmart employee = $13,861
9."Wal-Mart will escape criminal sanctions and pay $11 million to settle claims stemming from a federal investigation of illegal workers hired by the company's cleaning contractors"
10.Wal-Mart Realty has a total of 356 buildings for sale or lease, a total of 26,699,678 million square feet of empty stores
sources and more information can be found at
http://www.walmartmovie.com/
the film "the high cost of low prices" can be seen here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...
Another business is planning to move into the 73,000-square-foot Gottschalks building, but the question is -- which one?
Eureka-based property management company Carrington Co. submitted a building permit application on behalf of its tenant to the city on June 28 but withheld the tenant's name. According to the application, the tenant plans to make about $4.6 million worth of improvements to the building using Dallas-based architect Shade L. O'Quinn. O'Quinn did not return phone calls seeking comment. O'Quinn is listed as submitting site plans for five Wal-Mart stores in North Carolina, according to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Health and Natural Resources.
Wal-Mart declined to comment, replying twice via email that it did not “have anything to confirm or announce at this time.”
Pattison Christensen, an asset manager for Carrington Co., said the business that is moving into the old Gottschalks building is a major retailer, but he declined to disclose the company's name.
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The not-so-mysterious mystery retailer planning to set up shop at the Bayshore Mall will have a pharmacy, groceries, clothes and dog food, according to North Coast Journal publisher Judy Hodgson.
The old Gottschalks space will be “substantially demolished” to make way for the new tenant, the NCJ confirmed.
Eureka City Manager Dave Tyson knows which big box is coming, but is adding it to the giant pile of secrets he keeps at city hall.
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It’s a 73,000-square-foot apparel/grocery/pharmacy big box that looks pretty much like a Walmart, and it’s sailing through permitting at Eureka City Hall
The new $4.6-million-dollar retail store construction project is going through a routine plan check in the Building Department. It already has been approved by the city’s Fire, Engineering and Community Development departments.
Eureka businessman Rob Arkley, who also has substantial commercial real estate holdings, went on KINS radio last week and said the mystery tenant is indeed Walmart. But some people who may be able to confirm the identity of the tenant can’t talk.
Tyson said he “didn’t know who, officially, the occupant of the building would be. We don’t have any plans that have a name on it. We’ve not been told.” And everyone at the Carrington Co., a Eureka-based firm that owns 2 million square feet of commercial space in 23 states including the old Gottschalks, are under a confidentiality agreement not to disclose the tenant’s name, according to Pattison Christensen, Carrington’s asset manager.
Why is the project so expensive if it once held a Gottschalks? Christensen confirmed that the space will be substantially demolished, including the concrete foundation, and rebuilt to install new plumbing and electrical.
Walmart is moving toward smaller-footprint stores to battle its two-year decline in sales, according to press reports. Rather that the 200,000-plus square foot superstores, the company has been opening smaller stores such as the one in Westside Village near Atlanta, which is less than 80,000 square feet. Walmart is also experimenting with “Walmart Express” stores that are 10,000 to 15,000 square feet.
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