The developer and Cle Elum entered an agreement in 2011 but the former held off until 2019 due to economic issues/market concerns. When the developer announced they wanted to build, they and the city got into a contract dispute over terms and the permitting process
Long story short the developer sued and now we’re here. I don’t fully know what municipal bankruptcy proceedings look like but it feels existential imo
News story here: www.king5.com/article/news...
the thing one learns about municipal bankruptcy, growing up in the Rust Belt, is that no matter what happens to the municipal entity, it takes decades for the buildings to disappear (Detroit has lost 2/3 its population and been through municipal bankruptcy but it's very much still there)
True. And Cle Elum’s also a prime stretch along I-90 fwiw