Store panel to ask town for development authority

LaCrosse

The grocery store committee has been meeting on routine basis. The grocery store will be a nonprofit entity. A request to the Town of LaCrosse to consider starting up a Public Development Authority, similar to the towns of Odessa, Republic, Ritzville, Garfield and Uniontown, was drafted and sent to the city council for consideration.

If the town elects not to enact a PDA, the grocery store committee has indicated they will file a nonprofit LLC for the grocery store.

The proposal is on the agenda for the April 8 city meeting which begins at 7 p.m.

The grocery store committee had a clea...