Re: Office Depot

[G M <herecomestheflood@yahoo.com>]

Or a skating rink/bowling alley.

Greg Meyer




---Tom Lamar <lamar@pcei.org> wrote:
>
> Bummer, I was hoping the old Ernst site would be converted into a
> rollerskating/blading rink.
> 
> Tom
> 
> >I too was dumbfounded by the decision of Office Depot to occupy the
> >former Ernst site. Of all the business that we need in this city,
that
> >is the worst one, and to top it off, we already have a office
supply/eq-
> >uipment store here in Moscow! What kind of thinking allowed this?
While
> >I can see the two universities, Pullman-Moscow business and
indivduals
> >shopping Staples (although we do have a downtown business already
> >established in the same offering), we now need TWO office supply
> >outlets? And we have the ones just down the road in Lewiston too. Why
> >didnt.the CofC and the Palouse Mall people get a business in there
that
> >Moscow really needs? Did the building sit so long that they jumped at
> >the first interested party, regardless if it duplicates an already
> >existing business? And if one of them knocks them out of the city in
> >competition, there will be a empty building once again, and the
owners
> >will once again have to find another tenat. Just not make sense at
> >all!!                                              To answer C>
Burke's
> >question, I would like to see both large companies and small mom-pop
> >businesss here in Moscow. I work in a local grocery store and I met
> >people from a wide area of the Palouse, St. Joe and Orofino region
that
> >come into town to do business and shop. Moscow-Pullman serves a
service
> >area that although it overlaps the Spokane service impact area and
> >Lewistons' own, should be able to attract business and shoppers on
its
> >own merit by offering services without having to travel to those two
> >cities. And more importantly, it keeps money spent that would be
spent
> >elsewhere here in the local economey. We have a very diverse
population
> >here--more so than other communities in that we have university staff
> >and students, along with farmers, loggers, townspeople, rural
residents,
> >retirees, etc. that live here. Let's have Moscow-Pullman devolp a
> >business climate that meets the need for this population for the next
> >century. But lets not screw it up like the Office Depot-Staples
> >duplication and leave out a business that meets our needs..
> 
> 
> 
> 

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