PORT ANGELES – Plans for a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Port Angeles remain on track, although the train is running late.
The world’s largest retailer continues to pursue an environmental permit for a new store north of U.S. Highway 101 between Kolonels Way and North Masters Road, east of Port Angeles.
Jennifer Holder, Issaquah-based spokeswoman for the Arkansas-based company, confirmed last week that Wal-Mart still intends to build the 195,293-square-foot store on the site of a shuttered former Kmart.
She said the store probably would open in 2010.
That’s three years later than the target of this summer that Wal-Mart announced about two years ago, when it was expected to link to a sewer extended eastward from the city of Port Angeles.
The sewer also has been slowed, but not by so long a time. It must be finished by Nov. 1.
Holder and Clallam County officials scotched speculation that Wal-Mart might shelve the new Port Angeles store.
Wal-Mart announced earlier this year it would cancel the planned openings of about 75 new Supercenters – 30 percent of its store startups.
