<DIV>Bill,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This is why I support another mall on the corridor. The Palouse Mall has been driving lots of small businesses and locally owned businesses out. The new mall will force the Palouse Mall owners to charge fair market rates and not discriminate against locally owned businesses. The Palouse Mall has a monopoly on the retail industry on the Palouse because SOME in Moscow are blocking developments to create fair competition. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I use to do laundry at the mall because it afforded me the opportunity to shop instead of watching my clothes spin around in a circle. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Hawkins mall does and will allow a home for these businesses. Don't block it. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Bill London <london@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT:
5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1561" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>According to today's Daily News (page 4C), the Palouse Mall gave a locally-owned business (Homestyle Laundry and Dry Cleaning) 30 days to vacate their storefront at the mall.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>30 days!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So the owners are shutting down the business.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why? according to the DN, the mall had no comment.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This does fit in a pattern of the mall killing locally-owned businesses to replace them with national chainstores.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BL</FONT></DIV>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net
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