[Vision2020] Chas's Plan for Moscow Was: Will MoscowsupportHawkins sprawl-mall?

[Tom Hansen]

Eureka!

Chas may be on to something.  

"4. Build a huge roof over this entire area."

Building a roof over all of Moscow sounds very intriguing.  Furthermore, I
suggest that we require everybody entering the city to wipe their feet.
Heck!  Let's do oriental-style.  Have visitors take off their shoes and
leave them at the city entry points.

"5. Install a slow, looping tram for those whose legs don't work so good."

This could turn out to be a money-maker, Chas.  The city could sell weekly,
monthly, and annual MTP's (Moscow Tram Passes)

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But, why stop there.  I am talking . . .

A sub-surface I-95 Moscow bypass.  Why go around the city when you can go
under it?  

How about it, guys?


Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them." 

- Unknown 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of lfalen
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:33 AM
To: Chasuk; Matt Decker
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Chas's Plan for Moscow Was: Will
MoscowsupportHawkins sprawl-mall?

Chas

Worth looking into.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:32:38 -0800
To: "Matt Decker" mattd2107 at hotmail.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Chas's Plan for Moscow Was: Will Moscow supportHawkins
sprawl-mall?

> I would support a new mall.  First, because maybe it would draw a few
> of the restaurants that Matt mentioned.  I'm a t-shirt and jeans type
> of guy (my pocketbook and my balloon-belly dictate this, not my
> fashion-sense), so the prospect of trendier clothing establishments
> doesn't excite me, but it might excite the Britney and the Paris
> wannabes that I see on campus.  They have to graduate from the
> thong-tramp-stamp look eventually, and it might as well be in Moscow.
> 
> Erm, okay, so this mall is outside of Moscow, but it will still draw
> Pullman residents (including the Britney and Paris clones) in this
> direction, to shop at Winco and Hastings and BookPeople and to dine at
> the several appealing restaurants that Moscow does offer.  Maybe it
> will even give ghostly Staples a little trade.
> 
> The jobs will still largely go to Moscow residents, who will make more
> money working in Washington that this slave-wage state manages, but
> they will spend a big chunk of it in Moscow.  If there is a decent
> cinema in this mall, then I won't need to drive to the Village, and
> might then spend my meager date money at Applebee's or The Pantry
> instead of at Denny's or the Fireside Grill.
> 
> There are pluses and minuses.  I hate the homogeneity of malls, of
> Wal-Mart, of McDonald's/Pizza Hut/etc., but I am a fickle,
> impoversihed hypocrite who buy at the those places while hating them.
> 
> Here's what I would like to see in Moscow:
> 
> 1. Put a multistory car park on the corner of 6th and Jackson, or
> someplace else along Jackson between third and 6th.
> 2, Erect passenger overpasses across Jackson, maybe including one into
> the Moscow Hotel, which has been gutted and turned into a mall full of
> trend expensive shops.  Or quaint, interesting shops, with a few
> restaurants.
> 3.  Pedestrianize Main Street from approximately Mingles to
> approximately Gritman.  Tear up the asphalt and lay cobblestones.
> 4.  Build a huge roof over this entire area.  I've seen it done in
> London and other places in England, frequently covering train
> stations, and it can be quite attractive.   Anchor it from the
> buildings on both sides.  No more inconvenience associated with snow.
> 5.  Install a slow, looping tram for those whose legs don't work so good.
> 
> People would travel for miles and miles to this enchanted shopping
> area.  It would be preferable to another boring mall 10 times out of
> 10.
> 
> Chas
> 
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