Thorpe

What the application says

“The City of Spokane Parks and Recreation intends to manage the entire 192 acres of this property as a new public park... 160-170 acres... preserved and managed as natural land... development of (2) manicured neighborhood parks (5-10 acres each)...”

Verbatim from the application (application Part D), DNR's public application repository.

Status

1. 2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
2. 2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
3. 2026-05-27Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 2)

An application is not a transfer: the advisory committee scores parcels, the Board of Natural Resources approves a ranked list, and any transfer requires an appropriation in the state capital budget.

Coverage

• Extensive: WA State Standard 2024-12-12 (tension over transfer to private developer) and 2025-01-08 (exchange approved); DNR 2025: DNR and Blue Fern agree to cancel the Thorpe land exchange; KREM/KXLY coverage. This TLT application is the community alternative Commissioner Upthegrove invited after cancellation.

Documents

The application file in DNR's public repository →
DNR's Best Interests analyses and committee-meeting recordings live in the same repository; our archived copies land here as the records pipeline ingests them.