Building a new Walmart: How important are permits, really?

By Liz Farmer

Published September 8, 2011 4:00am ET

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Building a new Walmart: How important are permits, really? — Seems as if the proposed Walmart for the Brightwood neighborhood can’t do anything the nearby residents like. But this time the locals have a legitimate case in raising a stink: This week the site’s owner Foulger-Pratt started dismantling the old car barn without a construction permit. Um, oops. The demo was stopped after only the […]

Seems as if the proposed Walmart for the Brightwood neighborhood can’t do anything the nearby residents like. But this time the locals have a legitimate case in raising a stink: This week the site’s owner Foulger-Pratt started dismantling the old car barn without a construction permit.

Um, oops.

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