Article: Construction to Begin Soon on Wal-Mart SuperCenter in North Fort Worth, Texas.

By Jessica Deleon, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 25--Construction on a Wal-Mart SuperCenter at North Beach Street and North Tarrant Parkway will begin any day now -- a surprise to some residents who thought they had defeated the project three years ago.

The store should be completed in nine to 10 months, said Daphne Moore, Wal-Mart community affairs manager. The north Fort Worth store is expected to employ about 450 people.

Residents in the Park Glen-Summerfields area lobbied against the store in 2000, when it was first proposed. As a result, the Fort Worth City Council approved an ordinance that ...

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