‘We’re in that shift’: 300-unit U District housing development will transform contaminated site and signals larger changes

(Molly Quinn / The Spokesman-Review)

If you went to the narrow strip of land at the bottom of the bend in the Spokane River just east of downtown in 1905, you would have found the new home of the Spokane Manufactured Gas Plant and the American Tar Company.

If you’d returned a century later, in 2005, you would have found the Department of Ecology overseeing the site’s cleanup after a century of industrial uses, when the site was home to not only the gas plant and the tar company but also to a natural gas storage and distribution facility, a rail line and Brown Building Materials.

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