[Vision2020] UI selling parcel? (was: Red Door Closing?)

[Tom Hansen]

>From the "Local Briefs" section of the August 29, 2006 edition of the 
Moscow-Pullman Daily News with a "Thank You" to Saundra Lund for posting 
this earlier.

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Home Depot still planning move into Moscow market

Home Depot still hopes to open a store in the Moscow area, despite rumors to 
the contrary.

Kathryn Gallagher, spokeswoman for Home Depot, said Monday that the 
company’s plans to move into the Moscow market have not changed.

Home Depot is working with the University of Idaho to obtain the land for a 
store in Moscow, according to Gerard Billington, real estate official for 
the UI.

Billington also had heard that Home Depot was reconsidering.

“I heard rumors about the rumors,” he said on Friday. “I became curious and 
decided to find out.”

The rumor blossomed on Wednesday, when Moscow developer Shelley Bennett said 
at a Moscow Chamber of Commerce luncheon that the home improvement store had 
decided not to come because Wal-Mart backed off its pursuit of a super 
center in Moscow.

The UI owns the land behind the Palouse Mall where the proposed store would 
be located. The university is working on a proposal to present to the State 
Board of Education and officials at Home Depot.

“We are still fully engaged,” Billington said. “I think the rumors started 
because the deal hasn’t been cleared yet. We have no deadline.”


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Seeya rouind town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
MOscow, Idaho


>From: Pennsylvania Place <penn_place_boise at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] UI selling parcel? (was: Red Door Closing?)
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:55:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
>This whole Shelly Bennett/Home Depot flap is the first I've heard of the UI 
>wanting to sell property behind the Palouse Mall for development. Three 
>questions, if anyone knows:
>
>   1) Would this be a small parcel, or would it include the research farm 
>due north of the mall? What about access to the farm? The ponds? Etc?
>
>
>   2) Who on earth would want to have their business looking at the ass of 
>Palouse Mall? It's the ugliest rear view in town!
>
>   3) Does the UI still *own* the Palouse Mall property, or did they sell 
>it? I remember years and years ago that it was simply leased out, but 
>perhaps that wasn't true then, either.
>
>   thanks
>   Penny P.
>
>Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
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>                Not yet, Arnold.  However, they ARE interested in the 
>property that UI is selling (located behind the Palouse Mall).
>
>   Tom Hansen
>   Moscow, Idaho
>
>     "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of 
>arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to 
>skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body 
>thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"
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>
>   From: Donovan Arnold [mailto:donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 9:21 PM
>To: Tom Hansen; 'J Ford'; vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Red Door Closing?
>
>
>   I don't see a Home Depot in Moscow, do you?
>
>_DJA
>
>Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>   You must realize, J, that this is the same Shelly Bennett that started 
>the
>rumor that Home Depot was no longer interested in building a store in
>Moscow.
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
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>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
>On Behalf Of J Ford
>Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:54 PM
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Red Door Closing?
>
>Shelly Bennett says:
>
>""Let your readers know that the proposed purchaser of the building
>housing the Red Door restaurant, rumored to be Christ Church, is not,
>and has no intention of closing down the much-loved Moscow eatery,"
>Shelley said."
>
>Who said Christ Church is buying that building much less that they would
>close down the restaurant?
>
>
>
>J :]
>
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