Wal-Mart Plans Two Green Supercenters

green building strategies at two new supercenters in Aurora, Colorado and McKinney, Texas. The retailer plans to partner with colleges and universities to measure the success of the technologies; results will then be shared with the broader design and retail industries, and promising solutions could become standard in new Wal-Mart stores. The company chose Aurora and McKinney because their climates offer distinct testing conditions for the technologies, which are expected to range from photovoltaic panels to stormwater management systems. Wal-Mart hopes to break ground on the two experimental stores as soon as late summer 2004.