PC053 Randy McNeice 09-17-2015From:Sue Passmore
To:Elisha Heath
Subject:FW: painted hills golf course development
Date:Thursday, September 17, 2015 3:49:41 PM
FYI
From: Ben Wick Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 3:45 PMTo: Mike JacksonCc: Sue PassmoreSubject: Fwd: painted hills golf course development
FYI
Begin forwarded message:
From: Barry Baker <bbaker@bakerconstruct.com>
Date: September 17, 2015 at 12:55:25 PM PDT
To: Denny York <dennyyork@fairmountmemorial.com>
Cc: Arne Woodard <awoodard@spokanevalley.org>, Chuck Hafner
<chafner@spokanevalley.org>, Ben Wick <bwick@spokanevalley.org>, Ed Pace
<epace@spokanevalley.org>, Dean Grafos <dgrafos@spokanevalley.org>, Katherine
Morgan <katherine@spokanevalleychamber.org>, "Small,Benjamin"
<bsmall@cvsd.org>
Subject: Re: painted hills golf course development
I don't think it is the Chambers place to get involved in this one
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On Sep 17, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Denny York <dennyyork@fairmountmemorial.com>
wrote:
Hi Folks,
I along with Katherine and Ben belong to a group called the Breakfast
Forum-33 men and women from all different businesses and industry-
Randy McNiece is one of those members.
I’m passing his letter along-the Chamber isn’t taking a position on this
because we haven’t been involved and it hasn’t come up as far as I know.
Just thought you might want his information.
Thanks,
Denny
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Fairmount Holdings, Inc*
A Division of Fairmount Memorial Association
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From: Randy McNiece [mailto:randy@intermountainleasing.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 10:44 AMTo: Denny YorkSubject: painted hills golf course development
Denny: I don’t know if you and the valley chamber are aware of what is
going on with the old Painted hills golf course. As you probably know, the
course filed BK and eventually fell into the hands of developer Dave Black
due to a series of poorly planned and executed alternatives. At this
point, Black is proposing to build over 500 low end residences on the 99
acre site which previously was in the middle of the flood plain. Many in
the valley can not figure out why the city of the valley did not buy the
course and run it as a municipal course for the benefit of the citizens.
Instead they chose to spend their money on a piece of property owned
by Jack Pring at Sprague and herald that currently has no use. With that
all being said, there is a well organized group that has formed to stop the
development but more than that. The group would like to see the
property used purchased by the city for an alternative use such as green
space, park, wildlife preserve just to name a few. The decision to let
Black go ahead with his high density very low end project will be made by
the Planners at the city of the valley on September 20. This development
is a disaster for our community. I understand from the group that there
are grants and financing available repurchase the property and make the
99 acres a center piece for the valley community. The problem is the city
of the valley is probably going to give him the go ahead regardless of the
travesty it causes. I have attached a flier from the group for your review.
Personally I think a smaller city like the Valley rarely has an opportunity to
create a signature area within their city with 99 contiguous acres. Mike
Wacker in our group lives across the street from the site. I personally see
hundreds of deer, elk, moose, turkeys, geese, ducks, coyotes and many
other little folks on the site very often as I pass by there every day. It is a
real shame for the city of the valley to allow this to happen when they
could really make a statement about the quality of life in the Spokane
valley by getting on board with an alternative solution. Is the chamber at
all interested. Time is short—brochure attached
Thank you,
Randy McNeice
Intermountain Leasing LLC
PO Box 14758
Spokane Valley WA 99214
888.308.5327
509.924.0280
509.924.0294 fax
www.intermountainleasing.com
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