Leavenworth moves nervy with acquire of automobile clean concept – Information Global Web

By TAYLOR CALDWELL
Ward Media Staff Reporter

LEAVENWORTH – The City of Leavenworth module be acquire the past Cascade Quick Lube and Car Wash concept for $1.9 million.

The municipality has been considering feat the property, settled at 1451 U.S. Highway 2, for municipal purposes since at small 2018. However, it chose not to oppose it boost supported on a famous dirtying place crossways the highway, erst famous as Glacier Park. The Glacier Park place was compact by oil dirtying and has conventional lucre efforts since the 1990s. 

A 2023 expanse needs categorization indicated that the concept would be necessary for a open entireness campus, as substantially as to add power for a forthcoming communication of the waste communication plant. The municipality then pursued a Toxics Cleanup Integrated Planning Grant (IPG) with the Department of Ecology (DOE).

“The present from the Department of Ecology was a key characteristic of this acquisition,” said City  Administrator Gospels Selby in a advise release. “Knowing that the concept is pure prefabricated the selection to  take this strategic apportionment an cushy digit for the City Council.”

In Oct 2023, the municipality was awarded a $200,000 IPG from DOE to action cod travail and organisation the property’s doable acquisition. The aforementioned month, the municipality licenced Newmark Valuation and Advisory, which appraised the concept at $2.16 million.

After conducting digit phases of Environmental Site Assessments and a Hazardous Materials Survey this spring, the municipality institute no environmental constraints on the concept and planned the acquire to the City Council, which authorised the $1.9 meg acquire from Willkommen LLC during its gathering on July 9. The municipality anticipates an August approaching fellow for the acquisition.

According to Selby, the prototypal travel with the concept haw be to modify the unmediated requirement for parking division duty space.

“It’s not a organisation yet, but it’s an idea, is actually to advise [the] parking [department] into the automobile clean building. That module liberated up where parking took over duty expanse that was spare by whatever open entireness staff. It’ll provide us a lowercase more shack over there,” said Selby, during the meeting.

Taylor Caldwell: 509-433-7276 or taylor@ward.media