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Big Pasco was originally built in 1942 as a holding and reconsignment point for military supplies, mostly bound for the Soviet Union as part of the Lend-Lease program. Big Pasco was a massive facility of warehouses, rail spurs, and docks. It was deactivated in 1947 and then reactivated in 1950 as a supply facility for troops in Korea and as an Army Corps of Engineers supply center.
It was deactivated again in 1955 and the federal government offered it for sale in 1958. The Port put in several bids, the last of which was an $819,000 bid for the 459-acre parcel, which included eight warehouses. After extensive negotiations it was accepted in 1959. The Port of Pasco placed a bond issue for that amount on the ballot on October 6, 1959. Voters passed it overwhelmingly, 4,282 to 286, thanks to an effective get-out-the-vote effort. In 1960, the Port acquired the sole remaining 82-acre parcel, and became the owner of the entire Big Pasco depot site.
The site -- the equivalent of 16 city blocks -- had 1.7 million square feet of warehouse space and several miles of internal railroad track. It also had domestic water, sewer, electric and gas services. The first of many tenants was Portland Wire and Steel Warehouses Co., which leased a warehouse a week after the Port took over.
In 1961, Huico, a partnership of three Portland firms, became a major tenant. It had a $6 million pipe work contract for the Hanford Works, along with other pipe work.
Other tenants that year included Boise Cascade, Van Waters & Rogers Chemical fertilizer warehouse, California Spray Chemical Co, Industrial Rebuilders, Stramit Corp., and Big Pasco Warehouses.
As of 1961, the Port of Pasco was the third largest public port on the Columbia River, behind only Portland and Vancouver.
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