Oroville Plans a Permanent Home for City Hall
The city council moves to end the era of renting space as the town anticipates property value growth.
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The city council has decided to purchase a piece of ground in the city and build a city hall. The details have not been worked out yet, but likely construction will begin in the near future. The investment will be a good one; the city government will have a home, will stop paying rent, and in buying now will have the advantage of the increase of valuation of property in Oroville, which is taking place all the time.
“The city government will have a home, will stop paying rent, and in buying now will have the advantage of the increase of valuation of property.”
The civic impulse to stop 'paying rent' and invest in municipal infrastructure remains a pillar of city management today. Oroville’s logic in 1909—betting on the appreciation of land value to justify new construction—remains the baseline argument for modern municipal development projects in Okanogan County.
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