In the accompanying photo, an excavator breaks up concrete amid the rubble of the former Kmart store on U.S. Highway 101 at Kolonels Way east of Port Angeles on Thursday.
The site is being cleared for the construction of a Walmart Supercenter, scheduled for completion in October 2010.
The new store, which will include a supermarket, will be built on the site of the Kmart store that closed nearly 12 years ago.
The existing Walmart store across U.S. Highway 101 west of the Morse Creek “S” curve will be vacated and is already up for sale.
Asking price is $4.95 million for the building and its 19.67-acre property, according to the Web site www.loopnet.com.
The permit to raze the Kmart buildings was issued through Groat Brothers Inc. as the general contractor for the $200,000 demolition project.
The permit for demolition was originally filed in July.
The Walmart Supercenter — a larger department store with supermarket and specialty shops — at 3471 E. Kolonels Way will be built on the 19.8-acre site.
According to the construction permit, BCRA Inc. of Tacoma will be the general contractor for the $13.67 million project, which is in unincorporated county territory outside the Port Angeles city limit.
