Maple Valley officials should not cave into whims of Fred Meyer | Letter

I feel that Fred Meyer is not the best retailer for that area (Maple Valley). That is because of the relative close proximity of the Covington store. If the Covingtoon store wasn't there I would welcome it with open arms. Unfortunately for the average man on the street, we do not know if any other retailer has been approached or approached us about this project. I think a Target store would be a better fit.

May 24, 2010 5:14 pm

I feel that Fred Meyer is not the best retailer for that area (Maple Valley). That is because of the relative close proximity of the Covington store. If the Covingtoon store wasn’t there I would welcome it with open arms. Unfortunately for the average man on the street, we do not know if any other retailer has been approached or approached us about this project. I think a Target store would be a better fit. It would give us another shopping choice, provide competition to the adjacent retailers, provide us a larger array of brand name products, all coming on a footprint approximately the size of a Fred Meyer. The city officials really screwed up in ’02 by not welcoming new business into our area. I sure don’t want to see them welcome Fred Meyer and cave into their whims just so they (elected officials) can say proudly “look what we did for you”.

Bob Chamberlin

Maple Valley