[Vision2020] Home Depot & Moscow & Unfounded Bennett Rumors

[J Ford]

Well, Miss Saundra, its like Shelly and Mike Hoffmann getting together and 
suing the City of Moscow (basically the citizens of Moscow since we are the 
ones paying the taxes) for not allowing certain projects to move ahead fast 
enough to keep the financial backers interested.

Problem is, Mike, that people heard YOU come into the City of Moscow 
Community Development Office and cancel the projects on Mt. View and N Polk 
ext. due to YOUR inability to scrounge up the money.  (well, ok - the real 
reason you stated was that you had "changed your mind about the projects' 
viability...listen up Dougie, he doesnae think you would've sold all those 
homes you were conned - oops, I mean talked into trying to build.)

All this suit is is another way to strip the citizens and the City of money 
YOU, Mike et al, never had in the first place.  Other developers have tried 
this "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul" scheme that you have going with your five 
business that aren't and it didn't work for them any better than it is for 
you.  But, as the saying goes, "Those who forget the past are destined to 
repeat it."

Shelly Bennett is being, well - Shelly Bennett.  If it sounds like a buck, 
smells like a buck and looks like it could make a buck, she's gonna try it - 
even if it smells fishy as well.



J  :]





>From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at adelphia.net>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Home Depot & Moscow & Unfounded Bennett Rumors
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:22:24 -0700
>
>For the folks who continue to claim that Moscow is business unfriendly, you
>might find the following interesting & enlightening, especially the 
>*source*
>of the unfounded rumor that Home Depot had dropped its interest in Moscow.
>
>The question I have is what motivation Shelley Bennett, co-secretary of the
>Greater Moscow Alliance, would have for starting a rumor that perpetuates a
>blatantly false stereotype about Moscow's attitude towards business???  Not
>that I'm a member of GMA (I'm not, nor am I a member of MCA), but this is a
>HUGE red flag, IMHO, about what the community can expect from GMA.  The
>rumor sounds like a whole bag of Sore Loser Syndrome from those Super
>Sprawl-Mart advocates who didn't what they wanted!  Certainly, I think GMA
>has taken a *huge* credibility hit -- as it *should* -- with the Bennett's
>failed ploy.
>
>"LOCAL BRIEFS
>Staff report
>Published: 08-29-2006
>
>Home Depot still planning move into Moscow market
>
>Home Depot still hopes to open a store in the Moscow area, despite rumors 
>to
>the contrary.
>
>Kathryn Gallagher, spokeswoman for Home Depot, said Monday that the
>company's plans to move into the Moscow market have not changed.
>
>Home Depot is working with the University of Idaho to obtain the land for a
>store in Moscow, according to Gerard Billington, real estate official for
>the UI.
>
>Billington also had heard that Home Depot was reconsidering.
>
>"I heard rumors about the rumors," he said on Friday. "I became curious and
>decided to find out."
>
>The rumor blossomed on Wednesday, when Moscow developer Shelley Bennett 
>said
>at a Moscow Chamber of Commerce luncheon that the home improvement store 
>had
>decided not to come because Wal-Mart backed off its pursuit of a super
>center in Moscow.
>
>The UI owns the land behind the Palouse Mall where the proposed store would
>be located. The university is working on a proposal to present to the State
>Board of Education and officials at Home Depot.
>
>"We are still fully engaged," Billington said. "I think the rumors started
>because the deal hasn't been cleared yet. We have no deadline."
>
>
>Saundra Lund
>Moscow, ID
>
>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
>nothing.
>- Edmund Burke
>
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