Soap Lake hosts meeting regarding Purple Sage Meadows development

Some leave feeling their questions were not addressed

SOAP LAKE — A public hearing regarding a 236-lot manufactured home condominium development was held at the Soap Lake Community and Senior Center on Friday. The meeting had a large turnout of about 50 people, who had questions and concerns regarding the development. “This will give the first-time homebuyer an opportunity to build equity far faster than if they were buying a trailer in a rental park or if they were renting,” said real estate agent and former Soap Lake Mayor Raymond Gravelle, who represented the developer, North Pacific Investments Inc., at the meeting. The development, called Purple Sage Meadows, sits on about 39 acres along Division Street South, on the west side of the street between Eighth Avenue Southeast and SR 28. The site had originally gone through a process to become a 189-stall RV park before changing gears to the currently proposed development.