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RPS development

The River Park Square mall redevelopment was a complicated public-private partnership between the city of Spokane and the mall’s owners, the development companies run by what is now Cowles Co. that ended in lawsuits. Cowles Co., through various subsidiaries and affiliates, also owns The Spokesman-Review, KHQ-TV and the Journal of Business.

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News >  Spokane

OK on seeking 2 RPS settlements

The Spokane City Council gave the go-ahead Monday to seek settlements with two parties in a federal lawsuit related to the River Park Square parking garage. The council voted 5-2 to offer a settlement to the nonprofit Spokane Downtown Foundation, which sold $31.5 million in bonds in 1998 to finance the garage.
News >  Spokane

Mediated talks about RPS garage could avert trial

Attorneys for the city of Spokane, River Park Square and others involved in a massive federal lawsuit over the mall's garage held talks Thursday that could head off a trial in January. The mediation session, proposed by the city, brought attorneys and some city officials to the federal court offices on the second floor of the downtown Post Office building for meetings with a pair of mediators.
News >  Spokane

New round of mediation set over parking garage

Parties involved in a federal securities lawsuit over the River Park Square parking garage have agreed to a new round of mediation this fall, city officials said Monday. Two mediators will work with the city, the owners of the downtown mall, attorneys, bond underwriters and others still embroiled in a lawsuit stemming from the public-private financing of the mall's parking garage in 1998.
News >  Spokane

Downtown mall developer bills city $4.7 million

The developer of River Park Square on Thursday handed the city a $4.7 million bill for unpaid expenses at the downtown mall's troubled parking garage. That amount is on top of a previous bill two years ago for $3.3 million, bringing total losses at the publicly operated garage to $8 million in its five years of operation.
News >  Spokane

Ex-manager of RPS gets $6.5 million

The owners of River Park Square owe its former manager $6.5 million for work he performed on the downtown mall's renovation, a Spokane Superior Court jury decided Thursday. The seven-woman, five-man jury said companies affiliated with Cowles Publishing Co. should pay Bob Robideaux and his management firm the amount for extra work he did as project coordinator, project developer and construction manager of the $117 million renovation of the downtown mall.
News >  Spokane

RPS jurors hear both sides called greedy

Lawyers for the owner of River Park Square and the mall's former manager each accused the other of greed before a Spokane County Superior Court jury began deliberating Wednesday afternoon in a civil trial.
News >  Spokane

Council OKs loan for mall parking garage

The Spokane City Council voted 4-3 on Monday to loan money from its parking meter collections to bolster the ailing finances of the River Park Square parking garage. The vote came in the face of a court order requiring the city to loan the money under terms of a 1997 ordinance that established financing for the garage. Council members Cherie Rodgers, Bob Apple and Mary Verner voted no.
News >  Spokane

Eugster files lawsuit over parking garage

Former City Councilman Steve Eugster filed a new lawsuit Friday seeking to block upcoming city actions on the River Park Square garage. Eugster, a long-standing opponent of the project, contends in the suit that a recent report by the Internal Revenue Service means the city cannot loan money from its parking meter fund to cover some of the unpaid debts of the financially struggling garage. The IRS said bonds sold for the garage purchase were not tax-exempt.
News >  Spokane

Garage foundation to fight IRS ruling

The foundation that sold nearly $31.5 million in bonds to buy the River Park Square garage will appeal a recent Internal Revenue Service ruling that the bonds aren't tax exempt. Meanwhile, former City Councilman Steve Eugster said last week's IRS ruling means the city should not loan money from its parking meter fund to cover some of the garage's debts. Eugster, a longtime critic of the city's involvement in the project, also asked city and state agencies for a special inquiry into "possible criminal activity by city officials and others who participated in the city's involvement" in the project.
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