SEQUIM — A Wal-Mart “supercenter” under construction at the city’s western edge may become supersized if a developer goes ahead with preliminary plans to build a smaller shopping complex directly adjacent to the mega-retailer’s new store.
City planning and public works officials met with representatives of Seattle-based PacLand on April 20 to discuss pre-application details on an outdoor shopping center, which would be located directly west of the new Wal-Mart.
Eleven acres of land would be purchased from Wal-Mart.
PacLand is the engineering firm that designed Sequim Village Marketplace — a 395,000-square-foot regional shopping center set to be anchored by a Home Depot home improvement warehouse near the intersection of West Washington Street and River Road.
Both the Marketplace project and Wal-Mart were appealed in two separate superior courts by citizens group Sequim First, which sought full environmental-impact statements on each.
Their appeals were denied, although the Marketplace case remains open until traffic-impact and water-quality issues are accepted by Clallam County Superior Court Judge George Wood.
