Hawkins deal could come Monday

An amended deal for Hawkins Companies’ long-proposed shopping center in the Pullman-Moscow Corridor could be inked by Whitman County commissioners as soon as next Monday.

Jeff DeVoe, Hawkins’ project manager for the stateline shopping plaza, asked commissioners Monday to approve an amended development deal proposed by his firm April 12.

“This is probably the best that it could possibly be,” he said.

Three days of public hearings were held on the amendment, though very little of the citizen testimony centered around the actual agreement.

Most was concerning the economic viability of the project...