Albany city commissioners laid the infrastructure groundwork Tuesday morning for development of a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market grocery store and complementary fueling station at Logan Court and South Westover Boulevard, just off Gillionville Road near the recently built West Albany Waffle House.

Neither city Planning nor Engineering officials would confirm that the property would be used for the new Wal-Mart concept, but three people who have business interests in the region said Tuesday that Polestar Development LLC would begin work on the retail giant’s grocery store/service station development when property owner Bob Brooks is granted a C-5-to-C-2 rezoning request.

That request was approved 7-0 by the Albany-Dougherty Planning Commission at its April 3 meeting but must now be OK’d by the City Commission after an April 22 public hearing.

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