Walmart has bought nearly 20 acres of land between Highway 16 and 12th Street in Emmett, Idaho, clearing the way for the retailer’s first-ever store in the small Gem County city. The purchase will anchor a new commercial development called Longhorn Station, bringing a Walmart supercenter-style store, a fuel station, and a cluster of other retail tenants to a stretch of land just off the highway.
According to BoiseDev, the store will anchor the Longhorn Station development from Rocky Mountain Companies, and Walmart also plans to build its own fuel station on the property. Marketing materials from Rocky Mountain Companies, the developer behind the project, list the exact address as Highway 16 and East 12th Street and name Walmart as a co-tenant alongside Washington Trust Bank, a Cobblestone Car Wash, and what the firm describes as nine additional retail pads, according to Rocky Mountain Companies’ property listing.
Camille Lothrop, speaking for Rocky Mountain Companies, confirmed that Walmart will build its own gas station on-site, per the same BoiseDev report. That would make Emmett the latest Treasure Valley community to get a dedicated Walmart fuel station, a format the company has used at other Idaho locations for more than a decade.
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This will be Emmett’s first Walmart, with the nearest existing location currently sitting in North Meridian off Ten Mile Road, BoiseDev reports. The company already operates nine supercenters and one neighborhood market across the Treasure Valley, including a store in Ontario, so the Emmett project would extend that footprint further west…