Ownership of surplus property stays local

By DAVID TELLER

Staff Reporter

Medical Lake resident Carl Grubb is the proud owner of 15,000 square feet of downtown Cheney property.

Grubb submitted a bid of $48,150 on the Cheney property Spokane County declared surplus and had requested bids for last month. Spokane County Commissioner Bonnie Mager said the county received no other bids, neither verbal nor written.

She said all that's left is for Grubb to sign some paperwork and bring in a check and the transaction is complete.

The Spokane County Commissioners held a public hearing July 8 to auction of the property at 7 A Street, which the property has declared it as surplus.

According the Spokane County website, the assessed value of the property is $55,700.

The property has a corrugated metal building that has sustained a substantial amount of vandalism.

Grubb is the owner of ArborPro, who owns the adjacent property on A Street. The success of ArborPro was beginning to strain their property. They had no room, so something had to give.

“Unless we get a bigger place, we're going to have to move out of town,” Grubb said in a June 26 telephone interview.

Now that Grubb owns the property, ArborPro can begin to figure out what they're going to do with the extra space.

“We're just going to expand ArborPro and make it bigger,” ArborPro manager Pete Johnson said.

He added that he is uncertain of when the expansion will begin.

David Teller can be reached at [email protected]