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Dollar Kingdom Closing

Dollar Kingdom in the Walkers Village Shopping Center will soon close its doors in one week. The Columba family of Walkersville opened the store about fifteen years ago, and continue to operate the business. By 2010, the store moved to a larger space in the shopping center while other businesses vacated. The business kept a steady customer base offering a variety of products including household supplies, balloons, toys, and more. Mr. Columba, owner and face of the store, alluded to the closing over a year ago, but the store remained…

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Vacant Commercial Properties and Blight in Walkers Village Center

Walkersville continues to endure vacant commercial properties, and the problems associated with those properties. The concentration of the problems lies on the western end of Walkersville’s commercial districts. Some of these properties have sat vacant for decades. Most have sat vacant for more than a decade, and most are owned by one company. The majority of the properties are part of Walkers Village Center, an 86,231 square foot shopping center.  Anchored by Safeway, the shopping center provides a dry-cleaner, a veterinarian’s office, a Chinese restaurant, a flooring store, Subway, Dollar…

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Abandoned Bank Property Gets a Tenant – Temporarily

The abandoned bank at Walkers Village Shopping Center had a new tenant moving in today, temporarily.  The bank has been vacant for over a decade. For the next week or two, folks will be able to purchase fireworks from a tent erected on the property.  A port-a-pot was placed against the bank building.  The Town of Walkersville’s Planning Administrator confirmed that the use is being allowed under a section of town code that permits “tent, sidewalk or other outdoor sales events which are accessory to an existing commercial use in…

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