Moscow council approves annexation for business park

Shelley Bennett, a broker with Kiemle Hagood, said the business park will be centered around small businesses.

“I’ve worked with people over the years in Moscow and we’ve desperately needed a business park,” Bennett said. “We have not had a business park offered to Moscow for 30, 40 years.”

In other business, the Moscow City Council on Monday approved funding a study into a possible new elementary school location.

Earlier this year, the city and the Moscow School District entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly fund the study.

The study, which will be conducted by Lombard Conrad Architects, will look at the feasibility of building a school on city-owned land near West Palouse River Drive in south Moscow. It will focus on factors like vehicular and pedestrian access to the site, bus transportation and the potential for athletic fields.

The study has a base fee of $34,000, which will be split by the school district and the city. The study does not obligate the district or the city to take any further action.

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