Walmart to Present Plans for Abingdon Store Renovations

ABINGDON, MD — After scrapping its plans for a new store off MD 924 last fall, Walmart is back at the drawing board and is reportedly considering what the community pushed for all along: updating its Constant Friendship location rather than building anew elsewhere.

Walmart has planned a meeting Thursday to discuss expanding the already existing store in Abingdon.

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A diagram of the proposed expansion shows the plan is to increase the size of the store from 137,449 square feet to 187,627 square feet.

Initially, Walmart turned away from the idea of expanding the Abingdon location because it said the logistics were not conducive to expansion. A land deal that expires in 2018 restricts businesses in the area from selling groceries, Patch previously reported.

However, once plans to build a completely new store on MD 924 were introduced, Bel Air residents rallied against it, citing traffic as a chief concern.

The community input meeting about the proposed expansion of Walmart in the 400 block of Constant Friendship Boulevard will be at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, at the Richlin Ballroom, 1700 Van Bibber Road, Edgewood.

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