Comments on: GUEST OPINION: Oppose CVS At 16th And State https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/ A different slant on the news. Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:17:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jj https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103876 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:17:18 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103876 CVS made $5B in profit last year, $26B was income after GOCS but before all other expenses.

]]> By: So. . . https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103862 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:30:30 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103862 CVS made 28+ BILLION dollars of profit in 2016. They don’t need a cheap, ugly big box in downtown, and the city council has the power. What do you think will go down?

]]> By: katie fite https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103856 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:18:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103856 Thank you Mr. Fischer for digging in and opposing the proposed CVS blight on Boise. There are so many ways in which the historic and other protections for neighborhoods that Boise citizens have come to believe are in place – are not adhered to by the P&Z and City Council.

]]> By: Stephen C. Fischer https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103823 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 03:29:03 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103823 Well, there are indeed other parking lots near State and 16th, as well as other buildings of less than stellar architectural artistry — so maybe we should just let the developers trash the place, allowing no limits to the intrusion of more uglification.
Instead of a CVS, why not a Wal-Mart? While we’re about to knock down three vintage homes, why not make it 30? And let’s keep paving for parking spaces with truckload after truckload after truckload of rich and aromatic asphalt in all of its aesthetic appeal.
The resistance has to start somewhere. If we can’t stop this egregious affront to proportion and good taste, this big and boxy monstrosity, then maybe we should just give up on preserving Boise at all.
Maybe this petition will win, and maybe it will lose. However, it would be sad if the regular residents of Boise didn’t at least put up a determined last stand.
While some people are feeling good about themselves with supposedly sophisticated remarks of skepticism, others are sincerely putting their names on record as opponents of the degradation of Boise.
I’m glad to stand with regular residents in this scrappy but noble quest to keep Boise unique, even at the risk of being quixotic.
I welcome the skeptics to reconsider, and to join us.

]]> By: So. . . https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103821 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 03:18:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103821 Jim, You are nostalgic to the point of senility.

]]> By: MaryGlen https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103820 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:22:53 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103820 I am against CVS at the proposed State St. location. And no, I don’t live in the immediate area and am not a nimby.

]]> By: Jim https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103819 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:21:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103819 OMG. I grew up in the North end. I know that Churches were destroyed to make way for the YMCA. I know that Albertsons used to be on State Street @ 16th. I know that Boise High School had no grass field or tennis courts. Maybe we should regress to a Boise of 33,000.

Progress moves on. If you don’t like the way your neighborhood is moving, move. You are not a tree.

]]> By: David https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103818 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 05:22:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103818 This article has been noticed on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Boise/comments/79bi6p/oppose_cvs_at_16th_and_state/

]]> By: The American Dream https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103817 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 02:07:42 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103817 GIANT box stores full of cheap Chinese junk covered in lead is living da dream!

]]> By: jj https://boiseguardian.com/2017/10/28/guest-opinion-oppose-cvs-at-16th-and-state/#comment-103816 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 22:18:18 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=14257#comment-103816 Its a CVS, not a nuclear power plant.

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