With Johnson & Pace’s Help, Another Wal-Mart Supercenter is Built in South Texas
Johnson & Pace Incorporated has worked with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on numerous stores in the South Texas area. In November of 2006 the second store in Edinburg opened it doors to a parking lot full of anxious shoppers and prospective employees. In small South Texas towns there aren’t many things that are bigger than a new Wal-Mart Supercenter. Johnson & Pace and Wal-Mart both recall the excitement in Alamo, Texas back in January of 2004, when Alamo opened its first Wal-Mart Supercenter.
The new Edinburg store is located at 4101 S McColl Road, in the new Trenton Town Center, a 34-acre development, surveyed and designed by Johnson & Pace. The 204,000 sf Supercenter provides a solid anchor for the shopping center and helps to boost sales for the other stores in the center. Johnson & Pace completed the civil design for the Supercenter and the accompanying 1,000-car parking lot. The Supercenter also has a Murphy USA gas station located in front of the store.
Joe Hart, III, Project Manager for Johnson & Pace’s Wal-Mart projects says, “The Edinburg Supercenter was a special project in that we were able to take a previously undeveloped area and create a full scale shopping center, both for Wal-Mart’s new Supercenter and for other stores as well.” Johnson & Pace designed the Trenton Town Center shopping center, a total of 40,000 sf of new commercial space adjacent to the new Wal-Mart. Hart and the others that work on the Supercenter projects said that each Wal-Mart Supercenter is distinctive and different from the last. “Wal-Mart pulls in characteristics from the community into the style and color of the store and into the choice of landscaping materials. It is always a surprise to see what direction each store will take,” says Hart.
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