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To: coug who wrote (206270)	6/6/2009 1:49:18 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Nice downtown with hip little stores, coffee shops, etc.. Yeah, all two blocks of it. :)) But I can't believe they built "urban-type" condos there. Doesn't seem to fit imo.. No kidding. What were they thinking? Perhaps weekend wine warrior from Seattle who can tour his 10 acre vineyard in the morning, and relax safely back in civilization for the rest of the day? Yes, that is the MW in the background. Still owned by Mouselman (sp??) I think, although which part of him I'm not sure. He took to suing himself a few years back and I don't know which side won. Perhaps his ex wife ran off with it. As the only tall building in town it tends to show up in pictures. The vue22 development is only a couple of blocks away to the west. Unfortunately, those THs are built overlooking Mill Creek which runs through downtown Walla Walla in a concrete causeway (underground in places, like the two chic blocks by Starbucks). Talk about poor city planning. What could have been a gorgeous riparian park through the entire city with walking and bike paths is butt ugly instead. All for the failure to allocate a city block on either side to keep something of beauty, not to mention functioning as a flood buffer. Its not like space constrains the city in other ways. On my recent trips, which were the first time I'd been to Colfax, I discovered they did the same thing to the Palouse river there. Must be a regional disease? I was impressed that between WSU at Pullman and UI at Moscow, there is a nice bike path that links the two following the main road. Bit of uphill from WSU, but nice views, (I don't think I was too biased by some of the many coed bikers, joggers and walkers now was I??)