La Mirada~As reported here first on the La Mirada Blog many months ago, a new Walmart Neighborhood Market is coming to La Mirada.

The new store located at 14865 Telegraph Road is currently under construction adjacent to the new Walgreens that opened last month in the Crossroads Shopping Center and is expected to open this fall.

Walmart will be hiring over 60 employees for the new store and they will be opening a temporary job hiring center tomorrow (Monday) at the WorkSource Center, 10400 Pioneer Blvd. in Santa Fe Springs. The center will be open 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. through Friday.

Expect to begin working around October with full and part-time positions available. You can also apply or inquire online at http://www.careers.walmart.com/

The first Walmart Neighborhood Market opened in 1998, and today there are approximately 250 Walmart Neighborhood Market stores nationwide. The markets offer a one-stop destination for customers to purchase groceries and pharmaceuticals, along with other features you might find in a conventional grocery store.

Also, at around 30,000-50,000 square feet, the stores are generally the same size of a traditional grocery store. The La Mirada store will be about 35,000 square feet.

Also, renovation continues on the additional building on the property-the site of the former SoCal Pizza-that was not demolished as part of the current renovation process at the center. It will be enhanced, and will compliment the new city-mandated Mediterranean design the new Walgreens and Walmart have incorporated.