[Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed forPullman-Moscow Highway Site

[Bruce and Jean Livingston]

The sales tax revenue loss is not significant when the local community is 
not allowed to keep any of the sales taxes.  If sales tax stayed local, your 
argument would have more weight, but when all sales tax goes to Boise, that 
is the fundamental flaw of retail-based development, in my opinion.  The 
local community gets the costs of traffic and infrastructure, and only the 
property taxes, while the sales tax heads out of the community.

Bruce Livingston

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harkins" <jeffh at moscow.com>
To: "Janesta Carcich" <janestacarcich at yahoo.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed forPullman-Moscow 
Highway Site


| 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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| > > Love like you've never been hurt.
| > > Dance like nobody's watching.
| > >
| > > - Author Unknown
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| > >
| > >
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| >Janesta Carcich
| >
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