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<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>
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<DIV>Bruce Livingston</DIV>
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<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<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>><BR>| 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 from 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>|
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