{"id":59940,"date":"2014-01-24T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/family-dollar-finds-opposition-in-mancos\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T08:04:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:04:12","slug":"family-dollar-finds-opposition-in-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/family-dollar-finds-opposition-in-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Dollar finds opposition in Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Family Dollar\u2019s presentation was met with protest signs, and several residents spoke out against a proposed store.<\/span>Mary Shinn\/The Mancos Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The town\u2019s moratorium on big box stores expires in mid-March, and Family Dollar is looking to open a store on Willow Street facing Highway 160.<\/p>\n

The town can\u2019t accept an application for a new location until the moratorium is lifted.<\/p>\n

The presentation was met with cardboard signs protesting against Family Dollar, and several residents spoke against a new location.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease do your best to stop this infiltration of junk. We don\u2019t need it,\u201d said Ginny Moore, a town resident.<\/p>\n

Liz Bohm, another resident, spoke about the experience other towns have had with stores like Family Dollar and how they hurt the local economy. For every one job that a corporate store creates, 1.4 local jobs are lost, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of data that shows negative impact,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Family Dollar representatives Greg Wall, a project manager, and Brad Lasater, a corporate real estate broker, spoke to town trustees about making a new building visually appealing.<\/p>\n

A new store would be about half the size of a Walgreens, they said, and would be much smaller than a big box store. The company would be willing to decorate the building with faux stone to help it blend into the neighborhood and use muted sign lighting. A store would employ about nine to 11 people. The sites are maintained and stocked well, Lasater said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re good neighbors actually,\u201d Lasater said. Alan Rolston said that he was concerned about a store\u2019s economic impact on the town.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudies show that bigger retail stores, they don\u2019t expand the pie; they take the share of other existing businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chip Tuthill said the business could open just outside of town to avoid town restrictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are we, a one-mile strip. They can move outside of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The trustees said they would work with the Planning and Zoning Committee to revise town codes dealing with businesses like Family Dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dollar\u2019s presentation was met with protest signs, and several residents spoke out against a proposed store.Mary Shinn\/The Mancos Times The town\u2019s moratorium on big box stores expires in mid-March, and Family Dollar is looking to open a store on Willow Street facing Highway 160. The town can\u2019t accept an application for a new location […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11,13,896],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-economy-general","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-government"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59940"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}