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Is Walmart Coming To The Former Champion Golf Course In Cantonment?
November 17, 2017
There have been plenty of rumors and posts on social media this week claiming that a Walmart store will be constructed on the former golf course next to International Paper in Cantonment.
But don’t put on your shopping shoes just yet. Here’s what International Paper Communications Manager Whitney Fike told NorthEscambia.com Thursday afternoon:
“International Paper will be seeking a suitable operator to use the property as a golf course. The company will have for lease signs on the property in the coming weeks.”
The 9-hole Champion Golf Couse at the corner of Highway 29 and Muscogee Road was leased by IP to an independent operator who ended his lease back in August. Fike said at that time IP intends to find another operator to open the golf course.
If you are interested in operating your very own golf course, you can call International Paper commercial properties at (901) 419-7505.
NorthEscambia.com file photos.
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35 Responses to “Is Walmart Coming To The Former Champion Golf Course In Cantonment?”
I live in north cantonment. N hate driving in to nine mile rd. Where tons of growing n construction. Is going on to get my monthly needs filled. I actually hate shopping walmart. But my RX. N phone card I must buy there. And also. If wally world heads this way. Others follow as eats n extras. Which can be good n crowding starts. You learn to adjust n then DIE! Lol sorry I getting older n know its inevitable. Dont fight it unless its toxic. Truthfully. If I had the $ I would buy golf course n put DRIVE-IN -MOVIES. ! N some small shops like ice cream. Movies n videos. N coffee shop n trinkets 4 all ages like dollar tree type but fun stuff!! Lol.
I would recommend a Sears store on the golf course site. I enjoyed them so much when I was little. They could have a snack bar.
No I can’t imagine looking at clay roads for a motocross track. I agree this area needs a motocross track but further North will be suitable for that.
No stores constructed at this site PERIOD. The land is too beautiful to destroy for stores and parking lots. Keeping my fingers crossed that this golf course will remain a golf course. They need a business minded person to take over and run it as a golf course. Leave the grass and trees please.
There are so many golf courses not staying in business these days. I’m afraid that you won’t find many takers for this course.
If the course is not leased or sold to a prospective buyer wanting to own a golf course, I hope IP will just mow and trim and keep it beautiful.
No stores constructed at this site PERIOD. The land is too beautiful to destroy for stores and parking lots. Keeping my fingers crossed that this golf course will remain a golf course. They need a business minded person to take over and run it as a golf course. Leave the grass and trees please.
There are so many golf courses not staying in business these days. I’m afraid that you won’t find many takers for this course.
If the course is not leased or sold to a prospective buyer wanting to own a golf course, I hope IP will just mow and trim and keep it beautiful.
Picture this: Cantonment Motocross Track
All you people in Walnut Hill, Bratt, Oak Grove must know we have a grocery store where you do not have to pay taxes in Alabama and that is Piggly Wiggly at Davisville. Their specials cannot be beat and compare prices. They are not far off. Drive on to WallMart if you must but their prices there are high and then tax on top of that. I hate Wall Marts. They are trying to take over the world!
There is a Winn-Dixie a little south of IP. One does not have to come all the way to W/M on 29.
Bring it on. We’ve recently made the decision to sell the property that my grandfather built on and that family has lived on since the 1940’s. Bring back the days when Harlen Johnson’s Supermarket ran the corner in Molino, I’d stay. Besides, we have the Yankee’s, yuppies, and transplants running things and taking over anyway. Mr.Holder closing the bait store did it for me. No telling what’ll come. With the Beulah Beltway coming, it’ll turn into Beulah with over ten neighborhoods currently building homes in. Walnut Hill or Jay it’ll be. It’ll be like bringing Ensley to Molino. No thanks.
Also the bypass will be a good thinges in the long run. It’s sad some will lose their property but the bypass makes sense for escambia county. I say NO to Walmart at the golf course land!
The way I understand it is that the golf course must stay a golf course. It was a deal with the employee’s of the paper mill years ago… yes I believe the land could be used for something else that would bring some more jobs to Cantonment but it mostlikey
If a Wal-Mart grocery store and a Hardee’s were built in Cantonment, I would never have to leave Cantonment!
I use the WM grocery store on Nine Mile Rd. Traffic is horrible….well traffic is horrible everywhere, especially on 9 Mile Road and on Hwy 29. I’d really settle for a Hardee’s up here though. Or how about a movie complex?
Please NO WALMART….let the trees grow back.
YES, we do need a WALMART, up here on the North end of Escambia county, very badly! Let’s do it!
Regarding:
“Anything but a Walmart – most people HATE Walmart but are forced to shop there out of necessity.”
There are many things worse than a Walmart — not that I’m expecting one there.
Most people don’t hate Walmart, although many love to say they do.
Nobody is forced to shop there. If they do, it is a free choice, probably based on price and availability. There are many alternatives which may eventually replace it, but none right now.
David for Saving Money., Living Better
(or not — your choice)
I would rather see the county put soccer fields there.
NEED one on the north end on the Florida side!
I couldn’t have said it better, the University of Florida is like a Publix and the University of Alabama is just like Walmart. There is absolutely no chance that a Publix would take up business across the street form a paper mill, but Walmart would be a good fit.
#1 I’d rather leave it as a golf course or #2 how about a park with a walking trail? playground for the kids? Anything but a Walmart – most people HATE Walmart but are forced to shop there out of necessity. Keep Cantonment local! And if you live in Atmore and want a Walmart, get your own just on the Florida side of Atmore Highway and leave Cantonment and Molino out of it. We’re already dealing with the stupid Beulah Beltway as a result of Pen Air and that’s 12 miles away from us. Now, all traffic coming from Alabama is being diverted through Molino and Barrineau Park or Cantonment, it’s already a nightmare at Barrineau Park and 29 – just a matter of time before a death related accident happens at that intersection.
We have too many Walmarts in the area already. Much better choices out there for other stores to provide to our community. Walmart is like a cancer, spreading and malignant killing off all the good local and “mom and pop” stores.
No Walmart, Publix or major store chain and please no more convenience stores should be constructed at this congested site. And if any are to be decided upon, the entrance to any constructed building needs to be on Muscogee Road AND Morris Avenue and NOT Hwy 29. Traffic on Hwy 29 is already a nightmare from He!! as Alex stated. Some of those property owners North of Morris Avenue @ Porky’s Pizza need to come off their pocket books and sell some land. It will allow more stores to be built for those living North of Cantonment. That’s why I wouldn’t live in Bratt, McDavid, Walnut Hill or Davisville. By the time you buy your groceries, half of it is in the spoiling stage when you get home. And look how far you have to travel at today’s gas prices. Provide places for those folks North of here. They deserve it for being hard working farmers and etc.
All of these people complaining about how far you have to drive to get to a grocery store. That’s the whole purpose of living so far out is to get away from all of this stuff. Careful what you wish for our you wont be living in the “country” much longer.
I’d live to see a Neighborhood Wal-Mart here in Molino. Grocery Advantage has gotten expensive & quality of meats are horrible. Dollar General is all we have which does not sell real foods we need for our families.
That WOULD be a nightmare at that corner. How’s about a Walmart somewhere between Century and Cantonment. How’s about at the corner of Hwy. 97, and Tungoil RD?
Grocery Advantage is inexpensive, close and already providing that service tot he area. All Walmart will do is lower prices until the small stores can’t compete and go out of business and then raise them when the competition is eliminated.
Imagine the traffic when one of those trains closes off Hwy 29 for 30 minutes and the only outlet is heading down Muscogee Rd. in front of Walmart! No thank you!
Publix is like the Florida Gators football team , John
no explanation needed.
If anything keep Walmart away,, Publix yes,,
While the idea of better shopping closer to home is nice, think of the absolute nightmare a Wal-Mart at that location would create traffic-wise! It’s bad enough now.
we live in Bratt and that would be nice to have a Walmart a little bit closer than Ensley, Atmore and Bayminette Walmarts are close but you have to be ripped off by paying taxes on food which if you are spending $500 dollars your talking about 50 bucks in taxes giving the state of Alabama, no thanks, bring all the Florida side Walmarts you want to me I would appreciate it
The intersection there is already quite congested. A Walmart definitely wouldn’t help this.
Grocery advantage is a grocery store and frankly they are feeding my family because money is tight. I would hate for a Walmart to show up and kill their business. No thank you, Walmart blows anyway.
We live in FL right outside of Atmore. I would LOVE to see one in Molino. We pay $.10 on every dollar for Alabama tax on food. We’d sure rather shop in FL, but Cantonment is pretty far.
Noooooooo. The traffic is ready getting worse.
Lets not turn turn this nightmarish intersection during rush hours into he#!. More trucks on top of logging trucks will surely be a hazard to everyday commutes. Please put this Walmart further north of Neal Road. Hiway 196 & 29 be excelaant on the NE side.
Thanks but no thanks. Ensley is close enough for Wal-Mart.
we need one close to Molino- all we have is a dollar general and no grocery store