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

[Mark Solomon]

The day that sales tax revenues stay where they 
were collected you might have an argument. But 
they don't.

Mark Solomon

At 1:26 PM -0800 1/7/06, Jeff Harkins wrote:
>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  -----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Anybody taking odds on how this will affect
>>>  WalMart's application for a
>>>  super center?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Take care, Moscow.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Tom Hansen
>>>
>>>  Moscow, Idaho
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  ***********************************
>>>  Work like you don't need the money.
>>>  Love like you've never been hurt.
>>>  Dance like nobody's watching.
>>>
>>>  - Author Unknown
>>>  ***********************************
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  >
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>>
>>Janesta Carcich
>>
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