SAM'S CLUB SET TO OPEN IN 2003 CITY MAY AID DEVELOPER.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - A warehouse-style Sam's Club Sam's Club is a membership-only warehouse club owned and operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. History The first Sam's Club opened in April 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma in the United States.[1] Sam's Club is named after Sam Walton. discount store would be built on the city's west side in a deal in which the city will reimburse re·im·burse tr.v. re·im·bursed, re·im·burs·ing, re·im·burs·es 1. To repay (money spent); refund. 2. To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred. a developer $1.8 million for sewer SEWER. Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113. and water line improvements being made to support the east side Wal-Mart shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2002 on a 152,000-square- foot Sam's Club store at a site east of 10th Street West and south of Avenue O-8. Expected to open in 2003, the store will provide 150 jobs and will include a cafe and florist, bakery and meat departments. ``I think Sam's Club will be a great addition,'' Mayor Jim Ledford said. ``Our No. 1 request from our residents is for this type of store.'' In a deal to be voted on Wednesday by the City Council, the city would reimburse developer Stan Rothbart for improvements he is making for a shopping center at 47th Street East and Avenue S in exchange for the Sam's Club opening in Palmdale. Under the provisions of the deal, the city would pay $1.8 million to Rothbart 90 days after the Sam's Club store opens. The reimbursement Reimbursement Payment made to someone for out-of-pocket expenses has incurred. is for sewer and water line improvements, the installation of storm drains storm drain n. 1. A storm sewer. 2. A catch basin. and curbs and gutters, and the installation of a traffic signal. The improvements, city officials said, benefit the city's whole east side, not just the shopping center. ``The main sewer will open up additional capacity for the east side of town,'' Ledford said. The east side shopping center will be anchored by a Wal-Mart store. San's Club is a division of Wal-Mart stores. Rothbart is the same developer who brought the Wal-Mart store to the Promenade promenade Public place where people walk (or, in the past, rode) at leisure for pleasure, exercise, or display. Promenades are pedestrian avenues pleasingly landscaped or commanding a view, often located along waterfronts and in parks. Vehicular traffic may or may not be restricted. shopping center on Palmdale's west side. City officials said they have been working on bringing in a big-box, warehouse-style retailer to Palmdale for seven or eight years. At one point during the 1990s, Lancaster officials accused Palmdale of trying to lure away their Costco store - a charge Palmdale officials denied. The Costco discussion resulted in an anti-piracy agreement between the two cities in which they have pledged not to use incentives to lure away each other's major retailers and auto dealerships. |
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