About 300 acres of the 330-acre town, located across Interstate 90 from the Gorge amphitheater on the Columbia River, is up for sale. Colliers International and Auctions Inc. are offering 20 parcels in town for sale at 2 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Moses Lake Convention Center. George is a fertile environment, poised for development and we welcome the growth. One big improvement has been the installation of a sewer system for this town of 500, Kooy said. A man named Charlie Brown developed the city of George almost 50 years ago, with his wife, Edith, and planner M.R. Wolfe of the University of Washington.
Every street is named after a variety of cherry, in honor of the country's first president.
There's very little public property in town, outside City Hall, the public works shop and the sewage lagoon, Kooy said. He hopes that breaking up the George property into parcels will attract people and businesses looking for a new place to work and live. If you're looking at residential property, it's a fairly quiet town in a very accessible area. Tourism-oriented businesses would be nice, such as motels and restaurants, especially with the popular Gorge concert venue so nearby, he said. George has been bought and sold before, changing hands at least a couple of times since Brown divested.