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Walmart Gets One of Two Building Permits

The store is still waiting for approval on a second building permit.

Workers have gotten the OK to begin work on , but they aren't allowed to finish it yet.

The city last month approved a building permit for the business' "empty shell," but has yet to improve the permit for its "tenant improvements."

Elk Grove spokeswoman Christine Brainerd said the approved permit is for just what it sounds like–the outer shell of the 148,119-square-foot store at Bruceville Road and Whitelock Parkway, but not what's inside.

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She didn't have an estimate on when the second permit would be approved.

The company the store could open in spring of 2013.

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