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Local News - Local News - November 26, 2009
Work starts on two Wal-Mart stores in area
Idaho outlets' project values top $25 million; work force might hit 600

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the big Benton-ville, Ark.-based retail chain, is getting ready to expand its already substantial presence in the Inland Northwest.

It says it has started work on two large North Idaho stores—one in Hayden and the other in Post Falls—which will have a combined value of $25.5 million and together could employ as many as 600 people, and is seeking bids for a general contractor to construct one in Pullman, Wash. That would boost it to a total of 13 sto...


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