Palouse signs final phase contract on Brownfields site

The City of Palouse has a signed a contract for the final phase of the Brownfields environmental cleanup, moving a step closer to selling the Main Street lot to private ownership.

City council members May 8 approved an expenditure for $7,500 to their longtime consultants Maul Foster Alongi, an engineering and consulting firm, to facilitate the process to transfer the site to new owners.

Based in Seattle, the firm will now help Palouse market the quarter-acre lot, which has already drawn interest and been the subject of meetings in Palouse.

The consultants will put together marketing materials...