We fight valiantly against this store and the county commissioners denied permits and tried to lower the square footage. Walmart retaliated with multiple lawsuits and eventually the GA Supreme Court declined to hear their appeal. So they are coming, but it was not easy for them. I didn't want more traffic on Cascade Rd! It will hurt the other businesses as people try to avoid that already horrible intersection.

Wow!! The traffic in that area is already very bad. It will now become a train wreck. A Supercenter??? Really

I agree the traffic at that intersection is already bad, along with the traffic trying to get on and off the 285 exit. The group mentioned that Walmart has agreed to pay for $1M worth of improvements which should address the traffic concerns, but I do not know the specific plans.

Believe me it wasn't for the lack of trying. Fulton County did all it could. I just hope the other businesses don't leave because of this. Greenbriar would have been a better location.

Traffic is crazy on Camp Creek but that doesn't stop me from going. Think JOBS people, and maybe these young men will go to work instead of kicking down doors up and down Cascade.

Yes the jobs argument is strong. There could be as many as 300 jobs in that store alone. That is significant.

Yes jobs are important! But it is called Camp Creek "Expressway" .Also people that are kicking down doors are not looking for jobs.

Upset about a Walmart Supercenter?? Are you SERIOUS??? If Walmart had been approved first, Family Dollar would never have come!! So we fought Walmart and in the process let FD come in???? That's forest for the trees. In the words of Denzel Washington in Training Day - it's CHESS not checkers. That's (Walmart Supercenter) the kind of development we WANT in an area off of a major interchange!!! What we DON'T want is Family Dollar. In fact - that can work AGAINST FD!!! Having Home Depot, Walmart, Publix, Kroger anchors in our neighborhood HELPS the values of our homes in our neightborhood!! Now it will certainly be competitive with the other stores - but these are the kind of shopping choices that good neighborhoods need. Are they complaining about traffic in Atlantic Station? These kinds of stores also make the area a strong regional draw and a more desirable place to live because the amenities are CLOSE by and you don't have to drive forever to find them. You don't even have to drive on the street to get to any of them, because of the easements. Family Dollar is our problem - NOT WALMART.

People.. pick your battles. I'd welcome Walmart anyday over Family Dollar. At least Walmart will not lower property values and attract crime as Family Dollar has.

This will ultimately be a "wait and see" moment, but the reason that I was against the Wal-Mart is because of the potential to wreck our fragile commercial district and accelerate the influx of second- and third-tier retailers. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an area within Metro Atlanta where, within the span of a 1/2 mile, sit a Publix, Kroger and Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart's strategy is to undercut and dominate the competition, not to be a good citizen, so you can probably kiss one, or both, of those anchors good-bye within the next 2-5 years. And what will replace those anchors? Probably more of the same that we've seen in the last few years...wig shops, chicken wing joints, barber shops, nail salons...NOT the kind or quality of stores that Atlantic Station has as one commenter stated. I'm hoping the future of Cascade Road does not look like Memorial Drive or Old National Highway, but to say a Wal-Mart is what we want...hmmm...how many Wal-Marts are in Buckhead again?

Background on the Cascade Super WalMart http://www.sandtown.org/walmart_update.htm

Harvey can you fix the text to match the page on the Walmart update site? Is there a more detailed update available including the litigation?

Message from Henry Randolph <hankran@aol.com>: In regards to the Walmart on Cascade Road:

Walmart is displaying a closed system of procurement and not making business opportunities available to the community. There contractor was selected from a closed bidders list, and the subs are pre-selected subs of those contractors. No advertisement of opportunity.
This pattern may become displayed in other areas of concern and merit making other selections in the community when we conduct our shopping (eg using Publix and Greenbriar shops instead of Walmart).
It is further insulting to have a Karen Brewer Edwards of Walmart and even our own Commission Chair represent misrepresent the fact.
My suggestion is to promote a purchasing boycott and awareness of Walmart in the community.
The pattern of conduct is no different than that of Romney, the Koch Brothers in the systematic exclusion of diversity when it would be ever so easy to get inclusion.

COCStrong is 100% on point. Don't think about the 300 LOW-WAGE jobs. Think QUALITY GROWTH. Think about the type of residents this area seeks to attract and retain and the amenities that they want. Think about the neighborhoods that have most vehemently opposed this establishment in their neighborhoods and the reasons why. Publix and Home Depot will be out of there within a couple of years of this store opening. Streets littered with trash and shopping carts. Traffic unbearable. For the person who says that they tolerate Camp Creek - traffic issues are moving people to walkable, urban designed neighborhoods PERIOD. When I lived in midtown and Atlantic Station Target threatened to close due to low sales, we made it a point to keep that establishment there. I just moved in the last month and live within a mile of this coming Walmart. I live in an established subdivision. Homeowners are wondering how this flew under the radar and worry that this will be a negative tipping point. We planned to buy in the area before our lease is up in a year and NOPE, not now. There are too many vibrant areas in the city and too many discussions of smart growth in the region for this area to be moving backwards. You shall see...

Born and raised in Cascade. College educated person with college degree and I still couldn't afford to live in Cascade. Also, tired of driving across town , like Douglasville and lenox area for Walmart and upscale mall options. I want the Walmart, we just have to deal with the traffic. People we always complain about Walmart, but I'm pretty sure we will all shop there....

Will there be a permanent exit on Fairburn RD as well? I do not think Fairburn can handle the extra traffic.

The Fairburn exit problems pale in comparison to the deadly condition that will be exacerbated as we try to reach the Cascade exit. The absence of a designated exit lane on I-285 will increase the potential of creating a death trap as we try to maneuver the already hectic convergence from I-20 to I-285 in time to reach the Cascade exit. Wal-Mart and the County is to be placed on notice of their culpability and potential liability from not mitigating this hazard.

Yay for WalMart! I remember when no big box retailers wanted to build in Southwest Atlanta.

I don't know about you guys, but the new development is soothing to my ears. The nearest WalMart was off of 20W. I hated driving that far. I agree with everyone's post about WalMart being a better choice than Family Dollar. For goodness sakes, we have like 5 of them in the area. That's just too much. How many do we need? I would also like to see in the near future, some nice quality Hotels. What do you guys think?

Bring it on!!!! Everybody wants to put the southwest community down with the " I dont want!", but you will take your asses out to another community and bombard their streets with your traffic. Shut up, or move the hell out their where you go shop, and let us, in southwest Atlanta, experience a new age era of shopping, down the street from our homes especially when the children in the community have science projects, and can walk to walmart, rather than wait for someone to transport them to Thornton Rd. or further. Let's be for real, it's not all about what "YOU" want. Your getting old,sit down and move out of the way and allow change. If it doesn't work, then you protest, and complain.

I agree with "In my community". Because all those who disagree with having Walmart on Cascade, will be bursting down the doors to get in, once it get here. They will not want to go half way cross Ga. to go to another store. So everybody jchill out!