As a follow-up to the Northcross square-footage debate, we got these numbers straight from the man himself, Brewster McCracken, on Wal-Mart sizes in Austin (who in turn got them from the APD):
Super Wal-Mart, 1030 Norwood Park: 223,233 square feet
Super Wal-Mart, 12900 N. I-35 service road: 208,552 square feet
Super Wal-Mart, I-35 at Ben White: 206,359 square feet
Super Wal-Mart, I-35 at Southpark Meadows: 206,142 square feet
Super Wal-Mart, 13201 FM 620: 200,000 square feet
Wal-Mart, 290 at Mopac: 135,001 square feet
Proposed Northcross Super Wal-Mart: 225,085 square feet (and that’s including the quasi-outdoor garden center)
Granted, this doesn’t back up the claim of Northcross being biggest in the world, but it disproves KXAN’s claim: “Wal-Marts at 183, at 620, … and on Ben White” are larger than what’s proposed at Anderson.
Let the pwnage commence.
This article appears in February 9 • 2007.