[Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?

[Donovan Arnold]

Mo,
  
 My understanding is that property has already been sold,  across from Safeway to somebody else. A manager working at Wal-Mart  told me it is going in next to the new shopping center on the state  line because they were not able to get a second store on the Troy  Highway like planned. The original plan was to have a store on the west  side of Pullman and a store on the east side Moscow. When that failed,  they wanted one in a more central location to get as much of both  markets as possible. That makes more sense to me, then to expect  everyone to drive out to the west side Pullman of give up the business  of all of Latah and lots of Moscow. 
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA

Melissa Hendrickson <hend5953 at uidaho.edu> wrote:  The Pullman Super Walmart is going in across from Safeway, not just 
across the border on the Moscow/Pullman Highway.  So it will not be as 
convenient as you might think to simply stop shopping at Winco and 
start shopping at the Super Walmart.

--Mo

----- Original Message -----
From: Donovan Arnold 
Date: Monday, October 2, 2006 12:23 pm
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?
To: Dan Carscallen , vision2020 at moscow.com

> Ted,
>  
>  That is where they are going to build the new SuperWalmart. 
>  
>  Whitman is just thrilled that Moscow Elites gave them all their 
> future property tax revenues and sales income. 
>  
>  I am going to go to the Super Walmart, just like everybody else 
> making  less than 50K a year. But I think it is upsetting that all 
> the taxes  are going to Whitman County instead of to Latah which 
> is why I wanted a  store here, it was going to happen anyway. The 
> 6% sales tax on food at  Winco will be enough to send all the 
> college students the 200 feet west  to Super Walmart instead of 
> Winco. 
>  
> Do the math. If Walmart  is 5% cheaper than Winco, plus 6% not 
> taxed, that is an 11% difference  in price. If a college student 
> spends about $250 a month on groceries,  at a wage of $5.15, that 
> is 5.3 hours of work saved by going to Wal  Mart instead of Winco. 
> If a college student works only about 50 hours a  month, that is 
> 10% of their wages saved. What college student isn't  going make 
> the little effort to save that much of their meager earnings?
>  
>  Best,
>  
>  _DJA
>  
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> 
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> Dan Carscallen  wrote:  Ted asks:
> "Does anyone know if the mall on the Washington St. side of the
> Moscow/Pullman Hwy. is still going forward?"
> 
> Yes it is.  Here's the site you refer to:
> 
> 
http://www.hawkinscompanies.com/fliers/WA_Pullman_Hwy270_AirportRd_F.pdf
> 
> DC
> 
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