Port buys back lot sold to SEL

Port of Whitman County commissioners Dec. 4 approved buying back a lot in their industrial park at Pullman from Schweitzer Engnineering Laboratories. The lot had been purchased from the port by SEL in 2006.

Last August, Jana Schultheis of SEL asked the port to consider buying back the lot. She said the lot had become a wetland and could not be used for a building. Port President John Love at that time asked Port Manager Joe Poire to investigate buying back the lot.

SEL paid $55,000 for the lot.

Port officials hired an expert to check out the lot and they determined is was not a wetland.

The port’s purchase price for the lot, which totaled 1.3297 acres, was $50,392.