I'm going to the Viewmont Mall (Scranton, Dickson City: bars, towns, downtown)

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

Where in Scranton, in a ghost town? You have more people shopping and driving around in that area than any area downtown. You have Target, Wal-Mart, the mall and many restaurants in that area. It's more logical and fiscally sounder to put it in Dickson City.

I think that if an IMAX theater was put in anywhere in this area...it would draw crowds and cause new businesses to open.

The nearest IMAX's are in Reading and Harrisburg.

I think this is one of those rare cases of "If you build it they will come..." no matter where it's built.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I think that if an IMAX theater was put in anywhere in this area...it would draw crowds and cause new businesses to open.

The nearest IMAX's are in Reading and Harrisburg.

I think this is one of those rare cases of "If you build it they will come..." no matter where it's built.

You do have a point, but I suspect the owners researched all locations in the area and found this to be the best.

[KarenRice]

There is traffic to consider as well.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I think this is one of those rare cases of "If you build it they will come..." no matter where it's built.

And its going to be built in Dickson City because Scranton has ridiculously high business taxes. And Dickson City is laughing all the way to the bank because they probably make a mint in property taxes from all the businesses that locate there instead of Scranton.

I wonder if Wilkes-Barre city also has a high mercantile tax and that may be why all the businesses there go to Wilkes-Barre Township. The cities are shooting themselves in the foot with taxes.

[Magritte25]

Exactly GP. But that's a completely different issue then "Scranton sucks and no one will go there" isn't it?

Considering that numerous businesses have opened in downtown WB in the last two-three years I find your mercantile tax argument IRT Wilkes Barre a bit silly.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Exactly GP. But that's a completely different issue then "Scranton sucks and no one will go there" isn't it?

Considering that numerous businesses have opened in downtown WB in the last two-three years I find your mercantile tax argument IRT Wilkes Barre a bit silly.

That is the reason why businesses go to Montage and Dickson, the high mercantile tax. Like I said, if I was a business I would relocate to those places too. More traffic and more presence and lower taxes than downtown Scranton. I don't know the situation in WB, but that is the reason why so many businesses are leaving Scranton and none are coming here and when they do, they only last a short while.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Exactly GP. But that's a completely different issue then "Scranton sucks and no one will go there" isn't it?

Considering that numerous businesses have opened in downtown WB in the last two-three years I find your mercantile tax argument IRT Wilkes Barre a bit silly.

Nowhere near the amount of businesses that have opened in W-B Twp. Downtown W-B is still a ghost town compared to W-B Twp, and always will be. The same with downtown Scranton....the only businesses that seem to thrive in these downtowns are bars.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by go phillies

Nowhere near the amount of businesses that have opened in W-B Twp. Downtown W-B is still a ghost town compared to W-B Twp, and always will be. The same with downtown Scranton....the only businesses that seem to thrive in these downtowns are bars.

I'd hardly call WB a ghost town GP. You may have an argument on mercantile taxes in downtown areas, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I'd hardly call WB a ghost town GP. You may have an argument on mercantile taxes in downtown areas, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

It's not nearly a ghost town like Scranton is. But GP has a point. There are much more businesses and traffic in the area around the arena and the mall in WB Township. You have so many places to go in that one concentrated area, much like Dickson City is to Scranton. But, cities are always going to have shopping centers and strip malls nearby. I liken it to when I grew up on Long Island. You had NYC and then us, 40 miles away with all of our shopping malls and the like. It's just that in the cases of WB and Scranton, the outlying areas are stronger than the cores of their respective cities and that come from poorly executed plans for our city and county officials.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I'd hardly call WB a ghost town GP. You may have an argument on mercantile taxes in downtown areas, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Compared to W-B Township or Dickson City, it is a ghost town. Some new bars don't all of a sudden turn it into Manhattan or the Inner Harbor. The same goes for downtown Scranton.