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Harrisburg, Illinois The Largest Wal-mart in the world is going here. It will include several other outlets surrounding the massive store. Future development within Harrisburg will be moving south towards Carrier Mills and west towards Marion thanks to the now useless Levee that surrounds the north and eastern half of the village.

Illinois Department of Transportation representatives and Wal-Mart officials for the first time placed on the table the full view of a new Wal-Mart Super Center store to be built in the area southeast of the intersection of Sloan and Commercial streets, extending to state routes 34 and 145.

The new store, expected to be ready to open in mid-summer 2008, will be huge — 204,000 square feet of floor space, about the same size as the massive store that opened in Marion.

Added to the store will be four Wal-Mart-developed outlots for other businesses. Each of the outlots will be from just under an acre to about an acre and a quarter in size.

The new store will have parking for about 1,000 cars. IDOT has a large role in what will come along with a new store, about $6.7 million in highway and other off-site infrastructure improvements.The state Department of Transportation will pay $3.3 million of the cost of off-site infrastructure and Wal-Mart will pay $2.4 million.

The grant, along with city money fronted by Wal-Mart, will allow part of Sloan Street to be widened to three lanes prior to the Wal-Mart opening. State routes 34 and 145 will be widened at the area of the project and traffic control signals will be put up at the U.S. Route 45 intersection. The city will be constructing a public road access to the Wal-Mart complex, a snake-like road from Sloan Street east of the Reed Funeral Chapel, past the new store and parking lot to a connection with state routes 34 and 145. There also will be an exit from the new road to U.S. Route 45. The highway work will include the widening of U.S. Route 45 from Church street to the intersection with state routes 34-145 to a full five lanes.
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Coordinates:   37°43'41"N   88°31'57"W

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  • The levee that protects the north and east sides of Harrisburg would still serve to protect the city from a backwater flood. It does not block the growth of Harrisburg, since the areas outside the levee are too low to build on anyway. The growth of Harrisburg will need to be limited to areas which are not a part of the floodplain. Anyone purchasing property in Harrisburg is well advised to get an informed opinion about whether the property under consideration is in a low area that is prone to flooding. Harrisburg is a good town, but there are sections of town that never should have been developed as residential and commercial areas.
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