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By STACY NICK
The Coloradoan 6 -,2 3 - 0 0
After three years of con-
troversy and delay, earth
soon will begin to move for
a new, 375,000-square foot
shopping center anchored
by a Wal-Mart Supercenter.
A deal was signed Thurs-
day afternoon by Mark
Goldberg of Goldberg Prop-
erty Associates Inc. and
Wal-Mart officials to. put a
store at the future Mulber-
ry-Lemay Crossings Shop -
Developer, retailer sign pact
ping Center, said Lucia
Liley, Goldberg's attorney.
If all goes to plan, the su-
per -sized store, which com-
bines a traditional Wal-
Mart with a grocery store,
will open in mid- to late -
summer 2001. Costs of the
center were unavailable.
The center was strongly op-
posed by some who viewed
it as adding to the commer-
cial homogenization of Fort
Collins. Others feared the
shopping center would cre-
ate more traffic problems
for the already busy Mul-
berry-Lemay intersection.
Construction crews will
immediately begin grading
the land and do initial util-
ity work in preparation for
the store, Liley said.
Completion of fill work
for the center, planned for
northeast of the Lemay and
Mulberry intersection, is
expected this summer,
Liley said. Construction, in- '
cluding road and storm
sewer work, will begin in
the fall.
The 200,000-square-foot
Wal-Mart portion of the
center is estimated to be
completed in July 2001.
City Manager John
Site of proposed
Wal-Mart Supercenter
See WAL-MART, Page A2 I
In March, the council upheld
the planning board's approval of.,
the project.
Phase Two of the project also
includes building an approxi-
mately 175,000-square-foot
structure for an unknown num-
ber of stores.
Phase Two is still in the final
review process, Liley said. It will
go to the Planning and Zoning
Board in the next few months.
"It's a very complicated trans- i
action so we're very, pleased we
will be getting it done today and
can now focus on actually con-
structing the project," Liley said.
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Fischbach met with Goldberg
earlier this week to discuss the
next stages of the project, which has been three years in the mak-
ing.
"rm pleased to see that the city
staff has been able to facilitate
this project," Fischbach said. "It's
been a major project for us."
The Planning and Zoning
Board initially denied the Mul-
berry-Lemay Crossings project in
1998. When the City Council
turned down Goldberg's appeal,
Goldberg spearheaded a citizen -
initiated ordinance to approve '
the projeces preliminary design.
Voters approved the ballot
measure in April 1999, sending
the project back to the planning"
board. The board approved the
project's final design Jan. 20;
prompting another appeal —
this time by Citizens Against Re-
gional Supercenteis, or CARS.
The group argued the shopping
center posed a potential traffic.
hazard. .,