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Wal-Mart Getting Stylish in Super Center Construction

ORLANDO-The world's largest retailer is going Mediterranean. Two new 230,000-sf retail outlets in Central Florida will have red clay tile roofs instead of flat gravel-and-asphalt-based tops. Subdued earth tones are replacing the Bentonville, AR-based retailer's conventional blue and grey color scheme. And a 50-foot clock tower-like structure will be part of at least one new Super Center here.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on September 06, 2000

What’s happening to the Big Boxes? Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is still building them but the world’s largest retailer is also making an end run on to new design turf these days in metro Orlando.

The newly-designed stores are also going to cost a tad more to construct. The Bentonville, AR-based retailer never discloses construction costs but construction industry sources tell GlobeSt.com Wal-Mart generally puts up its big boxes for about $30 psf. The two stylish Super Centers, however, will cost an estimated $75 psf, or about $17 million per store.

Wal-Mart plans to break ground by year end on Super Centers in Ocoee, FL and in the MetroWest mixed-use development in southwest Orlando. Contractors will be racing to finish both projects in time for the lucrative Christmas holiday season. Wal-Mart’s 14-year-old store in Ocoee will close when the new outlet opens.

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