{"id":3319,"date":"2008-08-19T20:58:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2008-08-19T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:58:58","slug":"big_box_retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"Big Box Retail 2008: Costco Arrives in (Madison) Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonz8192008.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" border=\"1\"<br \/><Br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costco8192008madison.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" border=\"1\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Warehouse\/LocationTemplate.aspx?Warehouse=1020&#038;lang=en-US\">Costco<\/a> held a very well attended party this evening celebrating the opening of their new  Middleton warehouse club [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualproperties.com\/atlas\/index.php?minx=-89.52716782839049&#038;maxx=-89.5147912411905&#038;miny=43.096168694612984&#038;maxy=43.105451135012984&#038;scale=9&#038;s_layer=&#038;HOMES=true&#038;RESTAURANTS=true&#038;HOSPITALS=true&#038;SCHOOLS=true&#038;POI=true&#038;EMPLOYERS=true&#038;CHURCHES=true&#038;DAYCARE=true&#038;GROCERY=true&#038;MEDICAL=true&#038;HARDWARE=true&#038;PARKS=true&#038;NEWS=true&#038;BUS_STOPS=true&#038;LIBRARIES=true\">Map<\/a>].<br \/>\nI did not see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/reviews\/Idiocracy-1775.html\">stand to purchase law degrees<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=\/tct\/2007\/01\/16\/0701160294.php\">Middleton provided a TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) agreement<\/a> to the site developer.  A related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/isthmus\/article.php?article=6084\">Isthmus article can be found here<\/a>.<br \/>\nA few additional photos:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonh82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonh82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonc82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonc82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisond82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisond82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisoni82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisoni82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonf82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonf82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisong82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisong82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Clusty search: <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=costco\">Costco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonz8192008.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" border=\"1\"<br \/><Br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costco8192008madison.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" border=\"1\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Warehouse\/LocationTemplate.aspx?Warehouse=1020&#038;lang=en-US\">Costco<\/a> held a very well attended party this evening celebrating the opening of their new  Middleton warehouse club [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualproperties.com\/atlas\/index.php?minx=-89.52716782839049&#038;maxx=-89.5147912411905&#038;miny=43.096168694612984&#038;maxy=43.105451135012984&#038;scale=9&#038;s_layer=&#038;HOMES=true&#038;RESTAURANTS=true&#038;HOSPITALS=true&#038;SCHOOLS=true&#038;POI=true&#038;EMPLOYERS=true&#038;CHURCHES=true&#038;DAYCARE=true&#038;GROCERY=true&#038;MEDICAL=true&#038;HARDWARE=true&#038;PARKS=true&#038;NEWS=true&#038;BUS_STOPS=true&#038;LIBRARIES=true\">Map<\/a>].<br \/>\nI did not see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/reviews\/Idiocracy-1775.html\">stand to purchase law degrees<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=\/tct\/2007\/01\/16\/0701160294.php\">Middleton provided a TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) agreement<\/a> to the site developer.  A related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/isthmus\/article.php?article=6084\">Isthmus article can be found here<\/a>.<br \/>\nA few additional photos:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonh82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonh82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonc82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonc82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisond82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisond82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisoni82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisoni82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonf82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisonf82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisong82008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2008\/08\/costcomadisong82008t.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Clusty search: <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=costco\">Costco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,21,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}