The City of Issaquah, behind new Mayor Mark Mullet, has found a way to save roughly $40 million by choosing to purchase rather than build a new city hall.
Mullet, speaking on “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio, noted the move is just one of many that he has done to save Issaquah’s taxpayers a few bucks and how he plans to make the city an “oasis of tranquility.”
“I became mayor on Jan. 1, and we spent a lot of time meeting with real estate agents just trying to understand what was out there,” Mullet said. “So we found a building that worked. We did a creative deal with the owner where he actually gets to keep his family office in the basement of the building for the next seven years. That was what made him comfortable selling it as opposed to leasing it. It all worked out. We just had to be a little creative, think outside the box, and at the end of the day, I think we got a great deal.”…