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Port of Whitman County presents FY2026 ADO report: site acquisitions, brownfields work, and small-business support
Summary
The Port of Whitman County presented its FY2026 Associate Development Organization report detailing small business support (54 SBDC clients in 2025), business retention contacts, site and infrastructure purchases (113 acres purchase, former seed depot acquisition), brownfields and EPA-funded projects, broadband grants, and a portfolio of ongoing recruitment and marketing activities.
Port of Whitman County representatives presented the FY2026 Associate Development Organization (ADO) report to the commissioners. The report described six core elements of the Port's ADO work: small business development (the Port supported the Washington State University SBDC serving 54 clients in 2025, including pre-venture and start-up businesses), economic profiling with Eastern Washington University, business retention and expansion (contacted 42 businesses), business recruitment and marketing (Oakesdale Mill planning, site selection proposals), and site and infrastructure development (purchased 113 acres for future development, acquired a former seed depot in Colfax, brownfields assessment activities and multiple broadband grants totaling several million dollars noted).
The Port reported completed and ongoing projects including a $75,000 Commerce-funded planning study for the Oakesdale Mill, an EPA-funded brownfields assessment and cleanup effort, broadband grants to expand fiber to 209 locations, and loans and grants to improve airport hangar areas and Tekoa site infrastructure. The Port also summarized the FY2026 quarterly metrics and outreach efforts.
