Here's the article from the Spokane fish wrapper.
SR.com: County top bidder on 300 acres at raceway auction
Several days ago I received part of an article which preceeded the county purchasing the property but don't know the link as it was a cut and paste. Here's the interesting part of it.
"“Commissioner Bonnie Mager says she has yet to make up her mind on the issue.
I do think the Raceway Park should be saved” for future use as a racetrack, which might not happen if it goes to a buyer that has other plans for it, Mager says. She, too, says, “My preference would be that it stays in the private sector.”
Doug Greenfield, general manager of the Pacific Raceways track, in Kent, Wash., says the operator of that track, Racetrack LLC, of Seattle, has told Spo*kane County that it wants to manage Spo*kane Raceway Park—and if it became the park’s manager, Pacific Raceways would move its National Hod Rod Association-sanctioned Schuck’s Northwest Nationals drag-racing event to Spokane.
“The rain is a real problem. There’s years we have to extend” the event, Greenfield says. "
