Bruce,<br> <br> The reason the Mall is losing stores is because the owners are trying to sell it. So they are jacking up their rent on locally owned shops, banning local businesses from contracting with them and giving longer and cheaper contracts with large corporate chain stores. This increases the value and appeal of the Mall to the buyer. <br> <br> The locally owned businesses, like Marketplace Gifts and Hunter's Candy are not leaving because of lack of sales, they are leaving because the owners raise their rent every month until they find it ridiculously priced to stay there. After the Mall removes the locally owned businesses, it re-contracts the space to chain store, like Ross.<br> <br> I am surprised that all these people attacking Wal-Mart and pretending to care about locally owned businesses do not care local businesses are being squeezed out of their territory in favor of big chain corporations. Win-co is also no longer accessible to those th!
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the bus--often those that need the lower grocery prices most. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Bruce and Jean Livingston <jeanlivingston@turbonet.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div>Assuming <em>arguendo</em> that what you were "told" has a basis in fact, isn't it just as likely, more likely, that the reason that the share-owners in a retail-based business (that owns and operates the mall and is all about making money) fear that a Super Wal-Mart may impact their business and make it less profitable, and therefore that it is time to get out now (sell the mall), before vacancies in the mall become greater and the business they are trying to sell goes down further in value? </div>
<div> </div> <div>Bruce Livingston</div> <div> </div> <div>----- Original Message ----- </div> <div> <div>From: "Pat Kraut" <<a href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</a>></div> <div>To: "vision2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>></div> <div>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:25 PM</div> <div>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Petition</div></div> <div><br></div>| No, I am saying that we don't have a good reputation towards business and it<br>| is spreading...did you know the mall was for sale? I was told that they had<br>| 'read the handwriting on the wall' and I believe it could very well be true.<br>| <br>| ----- Original Message ----- <br>| From: <<a href="mailto:joekc@adelphia.net">joekc@adelphia.net</a>><br>| To: "Pat Kraut" <<a href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</a>><br>| Cc: "vision2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>>!
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:52 PM<br>| Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Petition<br>| <br>| <br>| Is the suggestion that businesses are leaving the mall because some folks<br>| don't want a Super Wal-Mart in town? I just don't get it.<br>| <br>| --<br>| Joe Campbell<br>| <br>| ---- Pat Kraut <<a href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br>| <br>| =============<br>| Today I needed to buy a red shirt for a granddaughter who will perform at<br>| the jazz festival and has already outgrown her red Christmas shirt.<br>| Gottschalks was the only store in town with anything red in her size. If had<br>| more time I'd be going to Spokane. There are so many stores in the mall<br>| closing that I wonder what it will look like in the future. Are we going to<br>| get a boarded up mall? Do any of you know that the mall is for sale by its<br>| management company? The attitude toward business here is going to shut us<br>| down not save us !
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anything.<br>| <br>| <br>| ----- Original Message ----- <br>| From: "Chasuk" <<a href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com">chasuk@gmail.com</a>><br>| To: "Vision2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>| Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:24 PM<br>| Subject: [Vision2020] Petition<br>| <br>| <br>| I went into Wal-Mart today, and there was a young lady sitting at a<br>| table soliciting those who entered to sign her petition for a Wal-Mart<br>| Supercenter. I take this as an indication that Wal-Mart is feeling<br>| the heat.<br>| <br>| _____________________________________________________<br>| List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>| serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>| <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br>| <a
href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>| ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br>| <br>| _____________________________________________________<br>| List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>| serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>| <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br>| <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>| ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br>| <br>| <br>| _____________________________________________________<br>| List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>| serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>| <a
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