The case for a suspected plan to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Blacksburg continued to build this week as a posting for the project on a national construction Web site came to light.

Fairmount Properties -- the Ohio development company that last year proposed an unnamed big-box store for land off South Main Street -- declined Tuesday to discuss the posting found at bidclerk.com.

BidClerk is a membership site that bills itself as "the construction search engine." According to the site, it connects contractors with land developers for the construction of public and private projects across the country.

A posting available to nonsubscribers and dated Jan. 29 advertises a need for contractors for site work and new construction for a Wal-Mart to be built in Blacksburg. The posting also contains a map that shows the general location of the site.

Fairmount lawyer Jim Cowan said Tuesday that the company has no comment on the posting.

Vocal opponents of the big-box store have argued that site plans for the proposed 186,000-square-foot Blacksburg big-box store strongly resemble the general footprint of a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

The word "Wal-Mart" was also found on one page of Fairmount's site plan submitted last year to the town for review. A representative from Wal-Mart said at the time that the company was interested in building a store in Blacksburg. The representative said that she could not confirm any specific store location, however.

At this point, the identity of the big-box store may be less important than what the Virginia Supreme Court might have to say about the project.

Last year, the Blacksburg Town Council passed an ordinance the requires special council approval for any retail building larger than 80,000 square feet and tried to apply it to Fairmount's project.

The company appealed, and both the Blacksburg Board of Zoning Appeals and the Montgomery County Circuit Court rebuffed the council's attempt to regulate the big box.

The council is now asking the state's highest court to weigh in on the case. Twenty-one Blacksburg residents affiliated with local anti-Wal-Mart group Blacksburg United for Responsible Growth, or BURG, have announced plans to file an appeal as well.

The town's legal briefs are due to the court at the end of this month, said Town Attorney Larry Spencer. Then the justices will decide, probably by July, whether or not they will hear arguments in the case, he said.

If the court declines to hear the case, Cowan said Fairmount could break ground on the store by fall.