High-Tech Office Park Planned

Sat., Sept. 5, 1998

By Angie Gaddy angieg@spokesman.com

Developers want to build a new high-tech office park on the corner of Pines Road and Euclid Avenue.

Owner John Miller of Lumber Yard Investments plans a $16 million, 15-acre project that would include space for small offices, warehouses and light industry.

“There really isn’t a facility like this in the area,” Miller said.

The vacant property sits just west of the former Walk in the Wild Zoo site and is zoned as urban residential. A hearing on the proposed rezoning of the property, from residential to a campus-style industrial park use, has been set for Wednesday.

Miller says they chose that site because of its urban designation.

While no tenants have signed on with the project, the developers are looking at general office-type companies and computer software and high-tech assembly businesses.

Preliminary designs call for four 27,000-square foot buildings along Euclid. There could be more buildings in the southeastern portion of the campus in the future.

If zoning is approved, developers hope to begin construction on the first phase of the project this fall. Other phases of construction will follow depending on the demand, Miller said.

Could this be the first fill-in development around the planned Mirabeau Point community complex just east of the project?

Miller doesn’t see it that way. There’s simply interest in having something close to the freeway in the central Valley that also has access to the North Side, he said.

Cathy Ramm of Ramm Associates, which is doing the site design for the project, said there seems to be more and more interest in the area.

“With the Valley Mall and the Centennial Trail a lot of this is ripe for filling in,” she said.

HEARING SET A hearing on the developers’ request for a zoning change is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the commissioners hearing room in the lower level of the Spokane County Public Works Building, 1026 W. Broadway.

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