SEQUIM — Wal-Mart has been issued a site construction permit and a building permit to construct a “superstore” in west Sequim — even though a land-use appeal is headed for trial in late February.
City Public Works Director Jim Bay this week approved a site construction permit for the 30-acre parcel on West Washington Street and Priest Road, on which Wal-Mart plans to build the 112,000-square-foot store.
That project, along with a planned 395,000-square-foot regional shopping center across Washington Street near River Road, has been challenged by the citizens group Sequim First under the state Land Use Petition Act.
A trial date of Feb. 27 has been set in Thurston County Superior Court for the Wal-Mart case.
Another trial is scheduled for Feb. 24 in Clallam County Superior Court on the regional shopping center, named Sequim Village Marketplace and set to be anchored by a Home Depot home improvement warehouse.
A Target store has also been mentioned.
Despite the legal delays, Wal-Mart officials have remained confident they will prevail in court and have even purchased the property they intend to build on.
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.