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Friday, August 30, 2013
Groundbreaking looms for downtown project By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
A common Auburnite’s response to the news that developers John McKenna and Brett Jacobsen plan to put up a six-story building on the old Cavanaugh lot
on East Main – yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it. Well, here’s news for the jaded: groundbreaking on Trek Apartments is at 2 p.m., Oct. 10 at the site. Plans call for a mixed-use building composed of 12,000 square feet of first-floor retail
facing East Main Street, below five floors of 128 market-rate apartments, transformable into condominiums. Their company, Plan A Development, bought the block on East Main Street on March 11 from LLC Bankers Capital Manage-
ment, LLC and Centrum Financial Services, Inc. for $1.4 million. According to the City’s newsletter, “City News”, the project is to include a second-floor Plaza Level, replete with a central courtyard offering barbecue areas, entertainment space, garden landscaping,
and a community kitchen for the general use of all tenants. The Cavanaugh block was to be the site of a development, Project Ace, built and financed by the Cavanaugh family and its [ more BLOCK page 12 ]
City mulls policy on ‘big’ memorials By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
In memory
Golfers and supporters release balloons in honor of Scott Banke and other children who have passed away from cancer, during the third annual “See Ya Later” golf tournament at the Auburn Golf Course last Friday. The foundation was established on behalf of Banke, an inspirational boy who lost his battle with cancer
in 2001. The more photos online… auburn-reporter.com event included 18 holes of golf, a catered dinner and a silent raffle. Funds from the event support the SYL Foundation’s Seeds of Hope Families. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation Department policy has plenty to say about City property vis-a-vis memorial trees, about commemorative plaques on benches, about stones, even about doggie poop bag dispensers … the sorts of things people donate on behalf of a person or cause in which they believe. But as for larger monuments, memorials, even big art pieces, and what their proponents have to do to get larger structures such as these approved for placement on City property, Auburn’s books say – nothing. Members of the Municipal Services [ more POLICY page 12 ]
Pacific ponders potential pot purveyors By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
The City of Pacific has taken a wait-and-see position on new businesses seeking to retail, produce or process marijuana within city limits. On Aug. 12 the City Council voted to extend by six months a moratorium that bans pot businesses
INSIDE: Pacific City Council approves new city clerk and personnel manager, page 8
from opening within the city. It did that to give Pacific’s administration time to take its cue from other Washington municipalities also struggling to cope with the fallout from the passage
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of I-502. More than 55 percent of voters statewide voted yes on the initiative last November, legalizing recreational use of marijuana in Washington State. “We’re waiting until the dust settles,” said Mayor Leanne Guier. “We’re looking [ more POT page 9 ]
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Pacific’s two medical marijuana dispensaries, Chronic Solutions, and Pacific Green, sit adjacent to each other off Stewart Road. SHAWN SKAGer, Auburn Reporter
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