Is Wal-Mart Independence Boulevard’s salvation?

Is Wal-Mart Independence Boulevard’s salvation? (access required)

Long-awaited Wal-Mart viewed as catalyst for struggling area; others doubtful

Surrounded by vacant and decrepit-looking shopping centers, hotels, restaurants and car lots, Independence Park is one of the last places still showing signs of life along a blighted stretch of highway just minutes from uptown. But Alec Polites said the shopping center is barely limping along. Polites, president of Polites Realty Co., and his father, John, the ...

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