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Article: Wal-Mart spurns Ellsworth site MDOT's requirements too costly
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- January 26, 2002
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ELLSWORTH - Almost a year after getting municipal approval to
construct 208,000 square-foot Supercenter at the intersection of
Route 3 and Myrick Street, Wal-Mart has decided to not build at the
site.
Keith Morris, Wal-Mart's director of community affairs for New
England, said Friday that the high projected cost of the Maine
Department of Transportation's traffic mitigation requirements made
pursuing the project at that site unfeasible. He said the estimated
price tag of nearly $4 million for widening the streets and
intersections in the vicinity of the proposed store were roughly $3
million more than what the company thought it should spend on road
improvements.
"We're not going to be able ...