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

[Jeff Harkins]

And the sales tax revenue lost????

At 12:56 PM 1/7/2006, you wrote:
>Do we have ESP, or what, Tom??? *laughing*
>
>Wal-Mart should go out there on the highway if they
>insist on being here. A Wal-Mart Superstore in Idaho
>is not fair to those who work there. Drive a few more
>miles to Washington, For discussion sake, let's say
>$2.00 more an hour minium wage. So.... $16.00 more
>dollars a day. That $80.00 more a week per FTE?
>$320.00 more a month, for a 40 hour employee, not bad.
>Not bad at all.
>
>Idaho residents working in Washington still pay Idaho
>state taxes.
>
>One store, in the middle of both cities, is better
>than 2, ten miles apart.
>
>The current site for a Super-store is not acceptable
>to me.
>
>Janesta Carcich
>
>--- Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> > >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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>Janesta Carcich
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