New Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market Proposed for Growing Tuscaloosa Area

A fast-growing area of Tuscaloosa will soon be home to a new Walmart Neighborhood Market, about a decade after one was first proposed there.

At their Tuesday night meeting, the Tuscaloosa City Council voted to annex and rezone around 2 acres of undeveloped land at 8600 Highway 69 South in Hillcrest for a new grocery store and fuel station.

There, developers represented by Gonzalez-Strength & Associates, Inc. plan to build a Walmart Neighborhood Market which was first proposed and approved in 2015, but never made it to the construction phase.

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In a December meeting of the city's Zoning Board of Adjustments, developers said the store and gas station will have a combined 46,455 square feet of building area.

At that meeting, the board voted to reduce the number of required parking spots at the store to around 250.

On Tuesday night, the city council voted unanimously to annex the property and rezone it for commercial development.

The developers did not give a timeline Tuesday night for when the Neighborhood Market will be built or opened.

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