Walmart+Developer

Walmart Developer

 * Introduction** - - As a Walmart Developer, it is your job use primary resources to determine whether Franklin County, PA would be a likely area to place a Walmart store(s).


 * Definition** - A lot of research goes into establishing a suitable and sustainable location for [|Walmart] stores. To create a store of this magnitude, it must be able to be supported financially be the surrounding community(ies).

As a developer of Walmart provide evidence for a store based on residential locations and population as well as commercial zoning. In addition, provide a specific location(s) and rationale for your specific location. Determine whether a normal Walmart or a Super Walmart (with groceries) would be a better choice. Provide potential stumbling blocks in getting approval for you store location(s).
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 * Primary Sources Websites**:

//[] The Bureau of Labor and Statistics provides unemployment statistics. This particular page shows the history of unemployment for Franklin County. Students could use this table to create a graph of their choice to compare unemployment rates over the years. The graph would allow students to visualize and determine if a pattern exists. Also, a question of “Is your family, or has your family supported any of these numbers?”

[] Charting the amount of money earned based on years of education, students will be able to analyze the amounts and determine the amount of education they would potentially work towards in order to support a particular life-style. (This would be a great source to accompany the statistics of the housing market in Franklin County.)//

//[] Showing various stats from 2000+, students can make predictions about the local area based on population numbers and cost of living. Why has Waynesboro had a rise in population, yet a steady growth in unemployment rate? Would you expect the opposite to be true? What factors keep families in a community? What factors would make a family move?//

//[] What makes an area's job marketability grow? This video would be effective for students to compare and contrast the local counties where we live with the five counties in the Pittsburgh area and determine why unemployment rates are not increasing at the same rate.//

//[|www.city-data.com/business2/econ-Franklin_County-PA.html] This site provides data on the various types of industry, annual income of the industry, and number of establishments. For the project, Students will be able to look at the current status of industry within the county.//

//[|usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/] This is a clickable image map of townships and boroughs in Franklin County Pennsylvania. Looking at specific zoning, this site will allow students to look at various zoning maps of the area.//

//[|www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/econDev/i81pa.htm] This is a site that explains the economic development history if the I81 corridor (a large part of the Franklin Co. economy) from the US Dept of Transportation Federal Highway Administration.//