The Orange County Walmart saga isn’t over. Late Tuesday night, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to grant a permit for the construction of a 130,000-square-foot Walmart in the vicinity of the Wilderness Battlefield.
Wilderness Battlefield Coalition, a group comprised of eight different private organizations, wrote and sent a letter to Walmart’s CEO Michael Duke asking him to reconsider the current location for the supercenter. The coalition also offered to help find a different location.
"Our coalition has stated from the beginning that we would welcome a new Walmart to Orange County at a less historically sensitive location," reads the letter.