Credit Courtesy of Downtown Spokane Partnership
A month before the Spokane Public School Board is scheduled to start construction on a new Joe Albi Stadium, they will again ask constituents if they want the stadium to be built downtown instead.
The pivot comes after a request from a coalition of business organizations and hospitality leaders as well as a professional soccer league.
During a school board meeting Wednesday, they promised to cover maintenance of operation costs for the facility and offered some private investment if the school district built the stadium downtown.
School Board President Jerrall Haynes suggested holding public forums to allow the community to quickly weigh in on a stadium, before the board can discuss it, and decide.
KXLY
March 10, 2021 11:12 PM Kaitlin Knapp
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SPOKANE, Wash. The Spokane Public Schools board wants to hear from you, again, before deciding whether or not to support a downtown sports stadium.
Voters thought they made their voices heard several years ago. In 2018, an advisory vote was held about a downtown stadium. 64% of the voters said to leave it at the Joe Albi location. This time around, the Downtown Spokane Partnership says it has new incentives to sweeten the deal.
“We feel confident that the details and the benefits of this proposal are absolutely in the best interest of the district and your families, or we wouldn’t be here,” said Mark Richard, President of the Downtown Spokane Partnership. “This proposal has changed. It’s improved since the voters weighed in, and it contains benefits that were not only they just weren’t apart of the previous proposal.”
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A coalition of business, hospitality leaders and a professional soccer league are again asking Spokane Public Schools to consider building the new Joe Albi
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he former site of the Observatory bar on the corner of Howard and First (15 S. Howard) is about to become a super sweet new spot. Moving into the space are two connected, complementary businesses: People’s Waffle and Emma Rue’s, the latter of which is envisioned as a Parisian-themed coffee, dessert and cocktail bar. Co-owner Aaron Hein, whose partners in the project are Bryan and Alyssa Agee, says both spaces are currently under construction. They plan to open People’s Waffle first as early as March. The sweet-and-savory waffle house was initially launched last year as a food truck, but the trio always intended for it to become a