8 Monday, December 7, 1987 / University Daily Kansan Survey Continued from p.1 some business to a suburban mall, the overall effect would not be as bad as mall opponents contend. John Immel, Lawrence attorney representing Warmack and Co., said the city had enough potential business to support a suburban shopping mall without killing downtown. He said most of the sales that now go to other shopping malls would stay in Lawrence, and customers from Franklin, Jefferson and Leavenworth counties would be drawn into town. The Sixth Street site doesn't have a developer yet, Collisier, who is representing the site's owners, said he wouldn't look for one before the site was rezoned. Collisier said he thought a mall on that site would affect downtown, but that it wouldn't kill downtown as a retail center. He said he thought both could exist in Lawrence. Mall developers and supporters have said that customers now leaving the Lawrence for shopping malls in Kansas City and Topeka spent as much as $32 million a year there. But the Melaniphy report, updated this year, says the city loses only $12 million in retail sales to other areas. The total yearly sales in the Lawrence trading area are about $391 million, and about $27 million of that is spent downtown, the report says. Some downtown business owners said they attracted customers from out of town who might not come to Lawrence if downtown were significantly changed. The Etc. Shop, 732 Massachusetts St., and Hand & I, 803 Massachusetts St., and both sell items unusual enough to draw shoppers from Topeka and the Kansas City area into town. Hand & I, one of the shops in the Casbah, is a cooperative shop selling handcrafted gift and artistic items. Helen Martin, one of the four owners, estimated that as much as half the shop's business originates outside Lawrence. Lawrence Martin said a suburban mall would kill Hand & 1 because the store depends heavily on drop-in business. The Etc. Shop sells specialty clothing such as hats, bows and other accessories as well as some traditional clothing items. Linda Lester, owner of The Etc. Shop, said at least 20 percent of the shop's sales were to out-of-town customers. two concerns most often cited by downtown merchants in the survey were that public money might be spent on retail development, and that a large retail project might favor national chain stores over locally owned businesses. Jones said that, nationally, JVJ's malls housed between 15 percent and 30 percent locally owned businesses. "It depends on the abundance of qualified, aggressive merchants in any town," he said. Most of the merchants who said they might close are locally owned. Of the respondents who said they would not move into a suburban mall, 44.9 percent cost was a crucial factor. 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