IF is not as business friendly as Ammon. As such, you see lots of new business going up in Ammon. Walmart moved. The vacated store was razed and replaced with a Lowe's. Now Pocatello has a Lowe's as well and many IF employees were anxious to transfer to the new Pocatello store. The IF city council is "progressive" alright. Tax and spend "progressive". Socialist "progressive". The have repeatedly tried to build "public" facilities with taxpayer funds that directly compete with existing private business in the city limits. The proposed "public" facilities would offer the same services at prices lower than the private business by using taxpayer subsidies. That is just plain criminal.
The Pocatello political machine leaves much to be desired too. Many small business people refused to "play ball" with various city officials. The city responded by harassing them out of business with endless visits from the building inspectors and fire marshall. Absent Neal Larson to poke at the dragon M-F on KWIK, the city council continues its screwy practices without much public scrutiny.
The "Mundo Latino" property is already offered for lease. Getting the western outlet store out of that property probably reduced the competition for the main Vickers store. No point in poaching customers from your own facility.
That is really disgusting, the disrespect by the tribal members towards the local law enforcement. I have seen some of that "gang related" attitude coming from the reservation and I would be a little worried if I lived there. Sometimes I wonder too, if the reservation allowed alchohol there, that there would be way fewer DUI's handed out by the local police. I do have my personal opinion on this subject but I'll shut up now.
When I referred to IF, I should have clarified between the two, IF and Ammon. Kind of like distinguishing Chubbuck from Pocatello. It appears though that up north they are growing much faster than down here in Poky.