[Vision2020] Petition

[Donovan Arnold]

Bruce,
  
 The reason the Mall is losing stores is because the  owners are trying to sell it. So they are jacking up their rent on  locally owned shops, banning local businesses from contracting with  them and giving longer and cheaper contracts with large corporate chain  stores. This increases the value and appeal of the Mall to the buyer. 
  
  The locally owned businesses, like Marketplace Gifts and Hunter's Candy  are not leaving because of lack of sales, they are leaving because the  owners raise their rent every month until they find it ridiculously  priced  to stay there. After the Mall removes the locally owned  businesses, it re-contracts the space to chain store, like Ross.
  
  I am surprised that all these people attacking Wal-Mart and pretending  to care about locally owned businesses do not care local businesses are  being squeezed out of their territory in favor of big chain  corporations. Win-co is also no longer accessible to those that need  the bus--often those that need the lower grocery prices most. 
  
  Take Care,
  
  _DJA

Bruce and Jean Livingston <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com> wrote:              Assuming arguendo  that what you were "told" has a basis in fact, isn't it just  as likely, more likely, that the reason that the share-owners in a  retail-based business (that owns and operates the mall and is all about  making money) fear that a Super Wal-Mart may impact their business and  make it less profitable, and therefore that it is time to get out now  (sell the mall), before vacancies in the mall become greater and the  business they are trying to sell goes down further in value?  
   
  Bruce Livingston
   
  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
  To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
  Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Petition

  

| No, I am saying that we don't have a good reputation towards   business and it
| is spreading...did you know the mall was for sale? I was   told that they had
| 'read the handwriting on the wall' and I believe it   could very well be true.
| 
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From:   <joekc at adelphia.net>
| To: "Pat   Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
| Cc:   "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
| Sent:   Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:52 PM
| Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Petition
|   
| 
| Is the suggestion that businesses are leaving the mall because some   folks
| don't want a Super Wal-Mart in town? I just don't get it.
| 
|   --
| Joe Campbell
| 
| ---- Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote:
| 
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| Today I needed to buy a red shirt for a granddaughter who   will perform at
| the jazz festival and has already outgrown her red   Christmas shirt.
| Gottschalks was the only store in town with anything red   in her size. If had
| more time I'd be going to Spokane. There are so many   stores in the mall
| closing that I wonder what it will look like in the   future. Are we going to
| get a boarded up mall? Do any of you know that the   mall is for sale by its
| management company? The attitude toward business   here is going to shut us
| down not save us from anything.
| 
| 
|   ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
| To: "Vision2020"   <vision2020 at moscow.com>
|   Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:24 PM
| Subject: [Vision2020]   Petition
| 
| 
| I went into Wal-Mart today, and there was a young lady   sitting at a
| table soliciting those who entered to sign her petition for a   Wal-Mart
| Supercenter.  I take this as an indication that Wal-Mart is   feeling
| the heat.
| 
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