time to even the playing field.

From: Henry McClure [mailto:mcre@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 11:20 AM
To: 'Jeff Coen' <jeff@thec-team.com>
Subject: RE: WEST RIDGE MALL

Look at the world different.

JEDO

What is economic development?

The reason in the start “Yes Topeka” ( I made presentations to get the sales tax passed) grow the tax base.

Today 33% of our sales tax comes from out of Shawnee County.  They are not coming to see the new statues on Kansas AVE. They go to Wanamaker road to shop. No matter how hard you try to create a market downtown, Noto or 29^th and Fairlawn…..you will not compete against Wanamaker.  

$7m in property tax and sale tax comes for the Mall.

How do you help?

Put the mall on an even playing field for economic development $$$$’s.

Hey if you give $50K for a guy to go downtown – you have to give the same to a business guy want to go the mall. The old chewing gum theory. “You better have brought some for everyone”

H

Yes, Topeka! promotes sales-tax vote

Posted: Tuesday, October 24, 2000

By By MICHAEL HOOPER and MIKE HALL
The Capital-Journal

An organization that campaigned for construction of the Signature Building in downtown Topeka has launched a campaign to pass another economic development proposal.

The Yes, Topeka! Committee has $120,000 in private donations and 100 volunteers campaigning for passage Nov. 7 of the quarter-cent sales tax, which will raise $5 million annually for economic development.

"When it passes, I think that the city and county elected officials are going to see this as a mandate, that the revenue from this quarter-cent sales tax will go to economic development and countywide infrastructure, not may go, but will go," said Sen. Alicia Salisbury, R-Topeka.

Salisbury and Dale Cushinberry, co-chairmen of The Yes, Topeka! Committee, discussed the campaign Monday during Mayor Joan Wagnon's news conference at city hall.

Yes, Topeka! is a separate organization from Go Topeka, which also has been pushing for passage of the quarter-cent sales tax.

Volunteers for Yes, Topeka! are expected to make 50 presentations to community organizations, churches and groups, Salisbury said.

Members of Yes, Topeka! have sent brochures and are going to call people on the phone and solicit support, she said.

John Pinegar, a member of Yes, Topeka!, said the group previously worked to support passage of a bond issue in 1998 for construction of the Signature Building and parking garage at S.W. 10th and Jackson. The $52 million building will house state government offices after it is finished in the spring.

Salisbury acknowledged that some voters are uncomfortable about the ballot issue because it isn't specific in its language.

The ballot simply states that the revenue will go toward "countywide infrastructure development and economic development."

George Bales, 58, a Shawnee County resident, said he previously voted for the passage of the quarter-cent sales tax for the Oakland Expressway but has doubts about the latest proposal.

"I am leaning toward voting no unless I see the city and the county show us how the funds are accounted for and that there are some stringent rules on how the money is spent," Bales said Monday.

Salisbury emphasized that a yes vote on Nov. 7 will mean that the community has a can-do attitude, a spirit of cooperation and a willingness to see growth.

"We want business here," she said. "We want business to be successful here."

After their presentation during the mayor's news conference at city hall, Salisbury and Cushinberry showed a seven-minute video being shown to local groups that explains the need for the tax.

The city's public affairs office will show the mayor's news conference, including the video, several times this week on cable Channel 4.

Joe Ledbetter, a Topekan who is urging a no vote on the sales tax question, said Monday he has asked for equal time on Channel 4 to present the opposing viewpoint.

Wagnon was asked at her news conference if she intended to give Ledbetter equal time.

"He was welcome to come to this press conference," she said. "He didn't show up."

Michael Hooper can be reached at (785) 295-1293 or mhooper@cjonline.com.

Mike Hall can be reached at (785) 295-1193 or mhall@cjonline.com.

From: Jeff Coen [mailto:jeff@thec-team.com]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 9:40 AM
To: Henry McClure <mcre@cox.net>
Subject: Re: WEST RIDGE MALL

Like I told you at the Kwik Shop I don't go out to the mall very often or Wanamaker for that matter.

Other than understanding your issue I'm not sure there's much I can really do to help you get people into those empty retail spaces.

Jeff Coen – Founder

The C-Team Studios, LLC

www.thec-team.com

jeff@thec-team.com

785-230-9362

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 9:51 PM -0500, "Henry McClure" <mcre@cox.net> wrote:

When can we meet out at the mall