 A Florida Third District Court of Appeal panel of judges denied the opposition's challenge of the city's approvals and Walmart broke ground on the development in January 2016.In 2014, researchers at the University of South Carolina and Sam Houston State University published the results of a study to determine if Walmart affects local crime rates.The study found that the crime rate in US counties that have Walmart stores declined at a much lower rate than the rest of the country since the 1990s.