[Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed for Pullman-MoscowHighway Site

[Pat Kraut]

Most of the businesses in Moscow pay Washington min wage or they couldn't
get people to work here they'd just drive to Pullman. It sure was true when
I worked at McDonalds here in Moscow. I'd prefer a super Wal-Mart on the
highway also and maybe we could fix the tax thing and gain some monies from
it. But instead of two in the area just one would make me happier. It would
be sprawl and it would be drain on our systems but lets face some facts...we
are headed down that road. I wonder if Wal-Mart has walked the Mall lately
and noticed all the empty stores? I understand the rent is the reason we are
loosing more stores.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janesta Carcich" <janestacarcich at yahoo.com>
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020"
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed for
Pullman-MoscowHighway Site


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
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> Application includes a Lowe's home improvement store
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> Staff report
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>
>
> 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.
>
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> 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?
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> Take care, Moscow.
>
>
>
> Tom Hansen
>
> Moscow, Idaho
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