Lycksele has been doing well for many years, including a strong labor market. A bottleneck for continued development has been the lack of housing and from that perspective it is of course not good if the merchant would not get rid of.

- It will be like a hack in the album of course, but we have so much else going on so that for the whole it will mean nothing, says Christer Rönnlund (M).

Do not think Lybo is affected

Municipal housing company Lybos CEO Carin Hellström Edvinsson does not believe that their planned projects will be affected by what happens to the Merchant.

"The analysis is too early to do, but we will stick to the projects we have planned," she says, referring to, among other things, the Town Hall and the fourth stage of Smedsberget.

Hear more about Lyckseleborenas thoughts if the Merchant would not get rid of the clip above.