MONROE - Wal-Mart officials can stop thinking meetings and start thinking construction.
The Monroe City Council Tuesday night unanimously passed a restated planned unit development (PUD) application for a Wal-Mart Supercenter, with little fanfare.
Erick S. Harris, an associate of Attorney Hank Gempeler, who represents Wal-Mart, was on hand for a public hearing of Wal-Mart's restated Planned Unit Development.
No one from the public spoke, and aldermen had no questions for Harris or City Attorney Rex Ewald.
The restated PUD approval was necessary because of a change in Wal-Mart's plans for the Supercenter.
Harris summarized the two major differences in the company's plans since the council approved Wal-Mart's first PUD in April 2007.
The new store is about 156,000 square feet, about 30,000 square feet less than first planned.
Construction material for the new store will be pre-cast panels instead of block.
Use of the panels can "shave two months off construction time," Harris said. That would allow an opening date of summer 2009, he said.
The PUD sits on 36 acres on the northwest corner of the Wisconsin 69 North and Wis. 11/89 interchange. Wal-Mart's store, parking lot, landscaping and related property improvements occupy about 21.7 acres.
Other land is set aside for future development of four outlots of 1.2 acres each.
The Monroe City Council Tuesday night unanimously passed a restated planned unit development (PUD) application for a Wal-Mart Supercenter, with little fanfare.
Erick S. Harris, an associate of Attorney Hank Gempeler, who represents Wal-Mart, was on hand for a public hearing of Wal-Mart's restated Planned Unit Development.
No one from the public spoke, and aldermen had no questions for Harris or City Attorney Rex Ewald.
The restated PUD approval was necessary because of a change in Wal-Mart's plans for the Supercenter.
Harris summarized the two major differences in the company's plans since the council approved Wal-Mart's first PUD in April 2007.
The new store is about 156,000 square feet, about 30,000 square feet less than first planned.
Construction material for the new store will be pre-cast panels instead of block.
Use of the panels can "shave two months off construction time," Harris said. That would allow an opening date of summer 2009, he said.
The PUD sits on 36 acres on the northwest corner of the Wisconsin 69 North and Wis. 11/89 interchange. Wal-Mart's store, parking lot, landscaping and related property improvements occupy about 21.7 acres.
Other land is set aside for future development of four outlots of 1.2 acres each.