{"id":336,"date":"2013-05-06T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2013-05-06T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T01:13:12","slug":"warehouse-row-announces-addition-of-wal-mart-supercenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/05\/06\/warehouse-row-announces-addition-of-wal-mart-supercenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse Row announces addition of Wal-Mart Supercenter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With hopes to increase traffic and customer base to the upscale shopping mall, Warehouse Row owners announced a deal has been made to bring retail giant Wal-Mart to its famous downtown Chattanooga location.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Warehouse Row has suffered a decrease in business and customer visits. Critics attribute this to the lack of variety that the high-class shopping mall has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the coming Tupelo Honey Caf\u00e9 will bring in an abundance of new customers, but it will not be enough to keep Warehouse Row fully sustainable,\u201d said Warehouse Row spokeswoman Shirley Thompson. \u201cWe believe Wal-Mart will largely fill the void that our customer base lacks. No pun intended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Construction is planned to begin this August, in which a majority of current Warehouse Row tenants will be ejected to make room for the new Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have planned for the whole building to undergo renovation for the new addition,\u201d said chief project engineer Earl Hoggart. \u201cWalkways will have to be widened and larger parking spaces for accessible vans will be added for our new customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/warehouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"warehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/warehouse-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other charges to the campus with the planned Wal-Mart include: the Public House Restaurant to be transformed into a Taco Bell\/Pizza Hut combination restaurant, the first in this area, all stairwells will be \u00a0 transformed into escalators, and Southern Burger Co. will begin to offer Big-Macs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited about the possibilities that will arise from the Wal-Mart addition,\u201d said Warehouse House manager Flora Tucker. \u201cWhere else can you purchase a two-hundred dollar pair of Rhinoceros \u00a0 \u00a0pants, along with dropping fifteen bucks on some camouflage printed skinny jeans?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Warehouse Row. Photo courtesy of CB staff.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hopes to increase traffic and customer base to the upscale shopping mall, Warehouse Row owners announced a deal has been made to bring retail giant Wal-Mart to its famous downtown Chattanooga location. In recent years, Warehouse Row has suffered a decrease in business and customer visits. Critics attribute this to the lack of variety that the high-class shopping mall has to offer. \u201cWe believe the coming Tupelo Honey Caf\u00e9 will bring in an abundance of new customers, but it will not be enough to keep Warehouse Row fully sustainable,\u201d said Warehouse Row spokeswoman Shirley Thompson. \u201cWe believe Wal-Mart will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}