[Vision2020] Fw: why is Moscow growing?

[Donovan Arnold]

Moscow would get a lot more jobs if it was not placing moratoriums on  everything and putting a tight noose around everyone that wants to  create jobs in the area. Let business men and women conduct business. I  was born in this town, and I would not want to start a new business in  this town because of the way employers get treated. 
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA

Tom Ivie <the_ivies3 at yahoo.com> wrote:Should  we look to other places to see why "the right" businesses have moved  there?  Does the cost of property, labor, and electrical rates  play a part?  And to what extent?

The first place that  comes to my mind is the city of George, WA.  They are in the  process of having major companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.  relocating some of their business because 1. land is cheap, 2. labor is  relatively cheap, and 3.  electrical rates are ridiculously low  (maybe the lowest in the nation).  I don't know if their location  to a major interstate is a factor or not, but they are within 15 min.  of I-90.

Bruce and Jean Livingston <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com> wrote:      v\:* {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } w\:* {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape {  BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) }    st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                 One  other thought that occurs to me as I mention high tech companies that  fit the bill for the kinds of economic development we ought to be  encouraging is that I totally spaced the infrastructure improvement  that the City has recently sought to undertake which is directed  toward the kinds of companies that we hope will grow and develop here  -- extending a fiber optic connection in a continuous  loop  beyond downtown, extending  to Alturas business park up  Mountainview to D Street (Eggan Youth Center, I believe) and back to  downtown.  And in thinking about that, I realize that I completely  forgot the host for this list, First Step Internet, which has also  extended high-speed connectivity
 throughout Latah County and their  local ISP competitor, Cactus Computers.  I'm sure there are other  businesses that I've forgotten, EMSI, for example, but my list was  not meant to be exclusive,  just illustrative. 
  
 Bruce  Livingston
  
    
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 From:    vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Bruce and Jean  Livingston
Sent: Tuesday,  September 19, 2006 8:55 PM
To:  Bill London; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] why is Moscow  growing?

  
  Bill,  one reason not to scrap our economic development efforts is that being  a bedroom community doesn't pay the bills.  The expenses of  extending infrastructure and fire and police protection exceed the tax  revenue brought in by mere residential property, and retail is not  significantly better.  We would be much better off if we could  continue to bring in and grow companies like AHA, Terra Graphics,  Eco-Analysts, Alturas Analytics and Anatek Labs, etc.  Encouraging  emerging businesses to develop from their infancy here, and recruiting  others that value our quality of life and do not depend on extracting  scarce natural resources, particularly water, for their business to  succeed, is a sensible endeavor.  And it does wean us a bit from  dependence on the University, while transferring some of that  brain-work to the taxpaying side of the ledger.  Bruce Livingston


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