[Vision2020] Market Over Flooded

[J Ford]

Hey, good question.

Follow-up question:  Since the housing market around town right now seems to 
be flooded with houses for sale and rentals/apartments at 30-50% vacant, not 
to mention the dorms at almost 35% vacancy and the enrollment at UI down and 
NO new manufacturing or large business moving into the area anytime soon - 
with all that going on, why in all that is Green do we need another housing 
development that would put 45-70 new homes on the already saturated market, 
especially since they will START at $200K?



J  :]





>From: "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?
>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:03:06 -0700
>
>There seems to be a lot of new, empty shop and office space available.
>
>Does anybody have a fact based theory about why this is so?
>
>W.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ted Moffett
>To: roger hayes
>Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?
>
>
>
>Roger wrote:
>
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>
>   The question I pose is, why when we open more lanes of travel does it
>   seem to breed more cars?  One would think having more lanes of travel
>   would dilute the volume. The movie axiom seems to apply. "If you build
>   it, they will come."
>
>   Roger Hayes
>
>And as often happens on Vision2020, no one yet has addressed your 
>explicitly posed question.
>
>One way to view why bigger roads and highways encourage more traffic is 
>from Business 101.  Businesses look to find a spot to situate where they 
>expect they can grow, so they take a look at the potential traffic flow, 
>i.e. customer flow.  So when a road or highway is expanded to allow more 
>traffic, businesses will locate there hoping to draw more customers, which, 
>if the business advertises successfully and/or has services and/or products 
>the public wants, is exactly what happens, expanding traffic.
>
>I'm not sure this explains an increase in traffic, if this has happened, on 
>the new Washington St. section, but perhaps the increased speed of traffic 
>is explained by the nicer smoother surface encouraging a little more weight 
>on the gas pedal.
>
>But who doubts for a moment that the proposed "mall" on the Moscow/Pullman 
>Hwy., on the Washington St. side, was planned with the expectation that 
>once the new expanded Moscow/Pullman Hwy. was completed, the traffic and 
>customer flow to the shopping center would be much larger than it would 
>have been with the old Moscow/Pullman Hwy?
>
>I recall looking up the plans for this proposed mall, which was discussed 
>in some detail on Vision2020, on a website that I cannot locate now...
>
>Does anyone know if the mall on the Washington St. side of the 
>Moscow/Pullman Hwy. is still going forward?
>
>Ted Moffett
>
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