<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I always thought they built the Moscow Mall just to make the Palouse Empire Mall look better. <br>I think if you fired a cannon through the center of the Eastside Market Place the ball would kill more people after it crossed the street into the cemetery.<br><br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/8/09, <span>Chasuk</span> <i><chasuk@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] water sale bill<br>To: "roger hayes" <rhayes@turbonet.com><br>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:22 PM<br><br><pre>I live very near Safeway. However, it generally fails me as a grocery<br>store, as it is too expensive for my income level. So I travel the<br>extra distance to the
much-less-expensive WinCo.<br><br>I would prefer to buy books locally -- and sometimes I do -- but I<br>usually buy from Amazon. Why? Convenience and affordability.<br><br>I love motion pictures. They are one of the few treats I allow<br>myself. But do I attend Moscow cinemas? Of course not. All Moscow<br>cinemas suck compared to the Village in Pullman.<br><br>Assuming that this mega-mall opens, I will likely shop there, as will<br>the majority of the citizens of Moscow, as they presently shop at<br>Wal-Mart, even if they are among the naysayers.<br><br>If this mega-mall opens, most of its employees will be from Moscow. I<br>count that as a cash-injection for my community (although arguably<br>offset by the loss of tax revenue). The water will come from our<br>shared aquifer. I count that as a loss if we do nothing but bitch and<br>sulk, but as a gain if we shut up and sell them the water.<br><br>The first question is, why is the Palouse Empire
Mall so pathetic?<br><br>Any "real" mall has a food court, which our pathetic mall lacks. <br>Even<br>the CUB at WSU has a passable food court. Please don't mention the<br>Sodexo abomination in the UI Commons.<br><br>Any "real" mall has a cineplex, which our pathetic mall lacks.<br><br>At least Eastside Marketplace is honest enough not to include the word<br>"mall" in its name.<br><br>The second, and last, question is, since the combined populations of<br>Moscow and Pullman don't seem adequate to support the Palouse Empire<br>Mall or Eastside Marketplace, why should this mega-mall succeed?<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br>
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