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Local News - Local News - July 30, 2010
County looks to offload land on West Plains
$2.3 million final payment made late last month on 200-plus acres there

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

Spokane County was forced late last month to borrow money from its treasurer's office to make a $2.3 million balloon payment due on more than 200 acres of West Plains land that it bought to facilitate the Geiger Spur rail line relocation project and a big portion of which it now is seeking to sell.

Through a multijurisdictional effort, the rail line was rerouted a year and a half ago to preserve and create jobs in that sparsely industrial area south of U.S. 2 and to get a portion o...


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