Wal-Mart abruptly cancels Supercenter

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I'm no expert, and I won't spend much time researching it, but there doesn't seem to be a super center in Wentzville. There is a new one in neighboring Lake St. Louis. That whole stretch, actually the triangle formed by Hwy 70 Hwy 40/61 and the Big Mo has been a boom area for years, with the different communities fighting each other for the tax dollars that development provides. The local cities were having major anexation wars years ago. My memories of Lake St. Louis was that it was nothing but a bedroom community for St. Louis. Essentially just an incorporated housing development with no commercial tax base. They probably bribed Wal-Mart to build there for the future taxes it would generate. They didn't have much local small business to get run out of business. The hell with the neighboring cities. I don't imagine the local government would give huge incentives without cause. Not that graft and bribery are unheard of in Mo.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.