Port-Pullman loan awaits CERB review

Officials with the Port of Whitman and City of Pullman will have to wait to hear if they receive a $1.3 million loan to bring utilities to a development on the city’s north end.

Debbie Snell, port properties and development manager, and John Sherman, Pullman city manager, pitched the loan proposal to the state Community Economic Revitalization Board last Friday.

Snell Tuesday told the Gazette the board decided to wait until its May meeting to make a decision.

She said the request was over the state board’s self-imposed $1 million loan limit, and some members of the board wanted to know if the...