COSTCO FILLS BILL AS CHOICE FOR SITE.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Lancaster's redevelopment agency is seeking a conditional use permit for a 153,000-square-foot warehouse-style store adjoining Lancaster City Park. City officials will not say what company the project is meant to serve, but it mirrors the scope of the Lancaster Costco store expansion that the city has been trying to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. for years. ``People are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. confirmation of a rumor RUMOR. A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth. 2. In general, rumor cannot be received in evidence, but when the question is whether such rumor existed, and not its truth or falsehood, then evidence of it may be given. ,'' said Stafford Parker, director of the redevelopment agency. ``We can't do that.'' Without identifying the proposed tenant, the city's redevelopment agency has applied for a permit on 19 acres at the northwest corner of Avenue L and 10th Street West. The application says the center would include a 150,000-square-foot commercial building, a 2,500-square-foot fast-food restaurant and a 12-pump gas station. That proposal fits the requirements Costco was seeking for the expansion of its Lancaster store. Lancaster officials have been trying for several months to find a suitable location for Costco, aiming to keep it in the city, along with its $350,000 annual sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. revenue. City officials say they are continuing to negotiate with Costco. Costco officials familiar with the Lancaster project could not be reached for comment. ``It's pretty assured Costco will stay in Lancaster,'' Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Roberts said the Costco discussions involve city subsidies, but not as much as the $3.8 million package proposed in May 2000 to keep the store in the Valley Central shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . Lancaster originally planned to help Costco expand by buying the adjoining 99 Cents Only Store and two other buildings in the Valley Central center. In November, city officials announced they were abandoning that effort. The plan had run into opposition from two of the shopping center's tenants. The 99 Cents Only chain filed a lawsuit seeking to block the city from using its power of eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in to buy their building, and HomeBase wanted $1 million and restrictions on what Costco could sell in order to agree to allow the gas station to be built. |
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