The company’s announcement puts the Skyland Town Center project at risk.

Construction is slated to begin later this month, and the project’s first phase is scheduled to be done in mid-2018.

Nine months after the groundbreaking.

The first phase, scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017, will produce a Walmart and mixed-use building with retail space and 263 residential units.

The D.C. Council gave its final approval today to a bill mandating that large retail stores pay their employees a “living wage” of at least $12.50 an hour.

Wal-Mart is pulling out of two, possibly three, D.C. sites where it planned to build stores, citing the D.C. Council’s impending adoption of a bill mandating large retailers pay a “living wage.”