Giant new Pullman complex will offer shuttle to WSU

With a private shuttle dropping them off on campus, future residents of the Hills on Grand, an off-campus student housing complex with an estimated $62 million value, will benefit from something no other Pullman rental agency has done yet.

Pete Dickinson, planning director for the City of Pullman, said the shuttle service will be the first of its kind and will operate independently of Pullman’s transit system.

The Hills are in former fields west of Highway 27 and south of the Albion Road.

With two phases of building and a total of 396 one-to-six bedroom units planned, 204 of which the city has...