[Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed for Pullman-Moscow Highway Site

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (January 7, 2006) Moscow-Pullman Daily News -

 

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Shopping Center Plans filed for Pullman-Moscow Highway Site

 

Application includes a Lowe's home improvement store

Staff report

 

Tow months of rumors an speculation about the possible development of a
shopping center on the Pullman-Moscow Highway are confirmed with the
application from a Boise developer to build one on the site.

 

Whitman County Engineer Mark Storey said Hawkins Companies submitted an
application for a conditional-use permit and filed an environmental
checklist required under Washington's State Environmental Policy Act.  The
application was filed Wednesday.

 

Speculation started in late October when a sign appeared on the site near
the Idaho border announcing plans for development of a shopping center.  The
sign disappeared two weeks later.

 

The company's website displays plans for a complex just west of the Idaho
state line.  The design includes three large retail stores, one of which has
been earmarked for a 135,000 square-foot Lowe's home improvement center.
The plans also include space for eight smaller retails stores ranging from
20,000 to 30,000 square feet and eight smaller "pad" areas.

 

Lowe's declined to comment on a possible store in the Pullman-Moscow area,
although a company representative did say the home improvement chain plans
to expand throughout the United states in 2006.

 

Storey is reviewing the application and said it will take between two and
two-and-a-half months for the application to move to a public hearing before
the Board of Adjustment.

 

Representatives of Hawkins Companies have not responded to requests for
interviews.

 

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Anybody taking odds on how this will affect WalMart's application for a
super center? 

 

Take care, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

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