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

[Jeff Harkins]

Mark,

Thanks for reply.

That is not how I read your post of Jan. 7.


>X-From_: msolomon at moscow.com  Sat Jan  7 17:54:00 2006
>Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:53:51 -0800
>To: Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com>,
>         Janesta Carcich <janestacarcich at yahoo.com>;, vision2020 at moscow.com
>From: Mark Solomon <msolomon at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Shopping Center Plans Filed for       Pullman-Moscow
>  Highway Site
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>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 -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>  -----------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  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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