Big-box blues -- Metro considers ways to keep big-box out of urban centers

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Big-box blues -- Metro will consider strategies to keep megastores away from revived urban centers

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/112392744424880.xml&coll=7

"National megastores scouting the Portland region for sites search out one common ingredient: people, and lots of them.

That's why large retailers want to locate near centers designed for urban living: Portland neighborhood hubs and suburban downtowns.

But many elected officials worry that large stores will spell death for the centers, which have developed with millions of dollars in local government investment.

They want more authority to turn away the so-called big-box stores. Short of that, they want a strategy to help their own live-and-shop districts compete. Both will be considered this fall at Metro, the regional government.

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The woman who rants about wanting "choice" in order to purchase her subsidized products from Wal-Mart, but says she's never been given a thing in her life just cracks me up.

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1. Anybody who wants to can "choose" Walmart. Just "choose" to drive to

Woodburn.