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South Regul Augus 7. Bend Redevelopment Commission it Meeting ; 19, 1977 LOOR DISCUSSION (Continued) department store where you could be right back where we started originally, that there is not sufficient parking in the area to support the retail enterprise. I don't think providing seven hundred parking spaces even on an in and out basis in place of he Odd Fellows is the complete answer. What additional parking could you provide? Now Mr. Brownell, you mentioned the tenants, I have seen the tenant list. That list means nothing, they are letters of intent. They are not definite leases. You cannot expect to establish in a downtown in a matter of a few years, you need ten or fifteen years, will these tenants who signed letters of intent plan to sign a lease for ten or fifteen years? Most retailers are surviving downtown now because of long -term leases, the only reason I have survived is because you were gracious enough to put parking right in front of my door. Another thing, there is no place to relocate. You cannot take Ed Wertheimer and put him down in the Baer building or block, it would never work, and I would not go. I've got to be and these merchants in business today have to be w ere the traffic is, no matter how restricted, we are still in that area, in the heart of the business area of what there is left, but y u can't put me down by the Baer building or you can't put me north of the New York Fur Shop and expect me to survive. It is out of the question. It is not possible whatsoever. Proof of what I am saying, aid I will give you a small example is, not too far away, we lost Milady Shop and Hanz Rintsch. Why do you think they closed their d ors ?...Because people would not walk that extra block. The business aid the traffic is in this central area. I am doing a viable business by default. I am doing business between eleven and three, the captive a dience. The young woman that works in the office, the secretary, tie nurse ana people tnat nave to d wntown to see the professional N w after that is over, its throu o eration, but it is still viable ii 40 stores, will this woman who p riod of time, she won't have ti oily is the dollar going to be fr 1 0 stores in another area, it is r tailers in the mini -mall unless stand the gap. A new tenant, Mr. c n, because if you put me out of M s. Hawley out of business, she a d I can't relocate. So we wait De downtown, the woman tnat comes Jerson, she will drop into my store. 1h. The downtown store is my smallest If you create a mini -mall and put shops on her lunch hour, or a short ie to shop 40 stores gentlemen, so not igmented from the imposition of another going to be fragmented for those they are substantial enough to with - Brownell, can come in cheaper than we business, I get nothing, if you put bets nothing. She can't relocate a year and a half without any business. 12