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Special Report - Special Report - January 17, 2013
DOT continues to pick up properties
Yet-to-be-completed land purchases along North Spokane Corridor route said to total $130 million

By Jessica Valencia
Of the Journal of Business

The Washington state DOT has spent $170 million acquiring property, including the house pictured above, for future construction of the North Spokane Corridor.
The Washington state DOT has spent $170 million acquiring property, including the house pictured above, for future construction of the North Spokane Corridor.
—Staff photo by Jessica Valencia
The Washington State Department of Transportation has roughly $130 million worth of unfunded right-of-way land purchases yet to complete, aside from far larger remaining construction costs, before it can finish the North Spokane Corridor, says Al Gilson, DOT's eastern region spokesman.

The DOT is focusing its acquisition efforts on the north side of the Spokane River, Gilson says. Between Francis Avenue and the Spokane River, he says about 100 residential, nonresidential, and city...


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