Talk:Midtown Walmart

Current "Miami" walmarts
By comparison, the stores in Hialeah and Doral, which have received press for being the largest, busiest, or at least the highest cashflow of any walmart in the country are over 200,000 and 250,000 square feet, respectively, and have over 1,000 parking spaces, following traditional layout. The Doral supercenter actually shares its parking lot with other box stores and business and might approach 2,000 spaces. B137 (talk) 20:52, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

A spokesman confirmed the fact to CBS Miami. The location's proximity to the airport apparently plays a large part in booming sales as foreigners like to stock up on Walmart's cheap goods before heading home. From Chinese factories to a suburban Florida Walmart to South America. What a world. Though, the Doral location's success isn't unique. According to a 2012 Miami Herald story, the Hialeah Gardens location was the top-producing Walmart in the country during that year. Both locations are Supercenters, as will be the proposed Midtown location. There are 13 Walmart or Walmart Supercenters serving Miami-Dade county's 2.591 million residents. Though, to put that in prospective there's five Walmarts serving nearby Collier County's 330,000 residents, and 12 locations for Broward's 1.815 million residents. So the fact there's less Walmarts per capita here than in neighboring counties may play into the chain's individual store success in Miami-Dade.


 * A more modest walmart being converted to a supercenter in quieter Jupiter, Florida, had parking encroached, reducing it from 700 to 675 spaces, and expects less than 10,000 customers per day.

As for the parking spaces, this goes by overall size via Google Maps and/or multiplying the amount of length and width spaces, though this varies by design. The Doral, Florida lot which is shared and has a restaurant cutting out the corner is over 1,000 feet by over 500 feet overall, but is about 30 spaces wide with about 15 double rows, so about 1,000 spaces counting some outliers, and can be seen on Google Earth to be mostly full, which it often is. At the holidays, the parking lots and stores are beyond capacity. The Hialeah geometry is a little different but also at least 1,000 spaces, and less shared. Interestingly, many of the downtown condos have almost 1,000 spaces, about 100 cars per floor and are about 10 stories, giving the skyline a deceiving heights boost with their "parking pedestals" in local vernacular. B137 (talk) 00:33, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

"groundbreakings" etc
This has had multiple "groundbreakings" that in reality were no more than site work. Including early 2016 when it "broke ground" some machines shuffled about on the surface, but as of late 2016 it is virtually dead. This is at least partially political via ongoing or new lawsuits though there could be other reasons. B137 (talk) 00:23, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

This July 2016 street view is just up to date enough to show the early 2016 groundbreaking a farce: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.8039916,-80.1938299,3a,75y,353.41h,89.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCyNDZPFRcp4CcsIYMsLlgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1?hl=en


 * It's still dead, likely politics ( http://www.thenextmiami.com/three-months-later-walmart-midtown-construction-site-still-shut/ ):

In Midtown Miami, the Walmart construction site has had virtually no activity since June.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the discount chain lacked the necessary unit of title needed for a construction permit.

A phased construction permit that allowed foundation work to begin had been issued in December 2015. It was revoked six months later, and Walmart has been unable to obtain any further permits.

Though this is a blog that should be cited sparingly.