Thursday, January 17, 2013
Meijer's plans to enter Wauwatosa and Sussex add to a rapidly crowding grocery market populated by Pick 'n Save, Target, Walmart, Costco, Trader Joe's and others. Is there enough business for everyone?
Since everybody has to eat every day, usually several times a day, there is an inevitability built into the grocery business. There will always be somebody ready to fill that need. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t volatile. The retail grocery industry is highly competitive, and since the rise of the chain supermarket, it has typically been a high-volume, low-margin business. If the demand for food is always there out of necessity, it’s still subject to changing tastes, offers of better service or pricing, dips and turns in the economy, demographic shifts in customer bases and fluctuating commodity prices. Over the past two decades, the grocery business in metro Milwaukee has changed radically, and it is about to change again. Nowhere is that…
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
During a year when politics often took our attention away from the business going on right around us, retail development in Wauwatosa went from next-to-nowhere to no-end-in-sight growth.
2012 may be remembered as the year retail business development in Wauwatosa started out in the doghouse and came out king of the hill. One year ago, the economic development gurus of Tosa were dismayed with the scope, the type and the timetables of new and proposed retail projects on the table and on the horizon. There were much higher hopes for bigger and bolder visions, such as UWM's Innovation Park technology research and development center – which just bore its first fruit Tuesday night. But now, the retail joy is overflowing, it is our city's shining beacon again, and that is thanks mostly to one magic name: Nordstrom. A year ago, a mere Nordstrom Rack clearance store was a bauble that had been dangled in front of Wauwatosa shoppers …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Company bumps its interior green space up to 11.5 percent, satisfying objections of council members.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
What had looked like a showdown over flowers, shrubs and trees was diffused Tuesday night when Meijer Inc. came back to the city with a revised landscaping plan that more than meets Wauwatosa's standards for its proposed supercenter store. The city's large-scale retail development ordinance – more commonly known as the "big-box" ordinance – asks for 10 percent interior greenspace. That's within the parking lot and around the building, not on the property's perimeter. Meijer's original plan for the store, at North 112th and Burleigh streets, called for just 5.6 percent, and although its proposal breezed through the Plan Commission – albeit with a recommendation that Meijer try to bump that up to at least 7 percent – the Community …
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Megastore promises to be an integral part of the community, rooted in the changing needs of consumers.
As big-box chains go, Meijer Inc. is not all that big. The supercenter retailer, combining a full supermarket grocery and discount general merchandise, is not even national – and far from it. If Meijer's plans bear fruit, Wisconsin will soon be just the sixth state it has entered, joining Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Regional player Meijer has proposals in the works to build megastores in Wauwatosa, Franklin and Grafton as its first inroads into The Dairy State. But that doesn't mean Meijer is a newcomer in the industry. "Meijer pioneered the supercenter, in Grand Rapids in 1962," said Frank Guglielmi, director of public relations for the Michigan-based company. "It was the first modern store to combine full lines of …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Needing separate actions on Burleigh property to make supercenter proposal work, Meijer draws unanimous nods on all three from city panel.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The City of Wauwatosa, some of its citizens, and its Plan Commission, had developed a reputation for being less than welcoming to big-box retailers. Some years ago, the city went so far as to pass an ordinance requiring expensive remediation plans from any big-box operator in case they should later abandon a site – a demand that many thought would simply keep them all away. Last year, Walmart got some initial pushback when it requested permission to refurbish a vacant grocery store as a new Walmart Market – and that doesn't come close to qualifying as a big box. But when Meijer Inc. brought forward a plan Monday night for a 157,000-square-foot "supercenter" development on the south side of West Burleigh Street at North 112th, the Plan …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Michigan-based supercenter store would occupy former industrial site immediately south of the Burleigh Triangle.
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
A large, vacant property in Wauwatosa's northwest industrial corridor will get a makeover as a new supercenter store if a Michigan company has its way. Meijer Inc., which owns nearly 200 combination supermarket and discount merchandise stores in the upper Midwest, has applied for permitting to build on the former Stroh Die Casting property at 11123 W. Burleigh St., according to city planner Jennifer Ferguson. The store would occupy 157,000 square feet on the site, Ferguson said. Stroh Die Casting left Wauwatosa in 2009 and the property has been unoccupied since. It lies just south of the former Roundy's Inc. distribution center now commonly known as the Burleigh Triangle. The proposal is part of a major move by Meijer into the Milwaukee …
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Lisa
6:57 am on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
My favorite is Woodman's but there isn't one close enough to me to shop there regularly yet. I do like Pick n Save, Piggly Wiggly and Aldi combined as 2nd choices. I do double coupons at pick n save to end up with free things sometimes and this really helps the budget. Aldi and Woodmans are good for everyday low prices. more ›