Sentence examples for proposed stores from inspiring English sources

He said the proposed stores, which would be newcomers to the neighborhood, were a "step in the right direction".

Their methods have included enacting size limits to keep out larger stores; requiring community impact assessments for proposed stores; and imposing formula business bans, whereby towns bar any store built on a nationwide formula, as chain stores are.

She came to be known locally as "the anti-Ikea lady" because of her dogged criticism of the proposed store.

Hundreds of residents in New Rochelle and neighboring Mamaroneck and Larchmont organized against the proposed store in the last year and a half.

They had waged a modest yet unyielding campaign against the proposed store, which they feared would force too many outside influences into their insular world of Orthodox Judaism.

"It's like sharecropping," said Marissa Johnson, who owns a paralegal service near the site of the proposed store, in the Chatham neighborhood.

Two weeks ago, about 150 local residents gathered to protest on the empty lot, forming a human chain around the site of the proposed store.

Under the new law, any proposed store of more than 85,000 square feet would have to undergo a special review and seek Town Board approval.

"It's going to bring jobs and help the community," Shawn Polk, 20, a college student who lives near the proposed store, said afterward.

That puts it one store short of requiring a conditional-use permit — which would have meant notifying the public of its plans, getting through a public hearing, and persuading planning commissioners of the proposed store's benefits.

Another Kmart supplier, Footstar Inc., which sells shoes in Kmart shoe departments, said it would lose about 5percentt of its sales as a result of the proposed store closings.