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Last week, we published a piece about Johnnie Perkins, the man who will have one of the most important positions in Spokane city government, Mayor Nadine Woodward's city administrator.
Perkins came from San Diego, where a real estate deal gone bad — imagine Spokane's River Park Square parking garage debacle, if you were to throw on chunks of asbestos and a dangerously flawed fire safety system — had collapsed into a multi-year scandal that has sparked multiple lawsuits.
Perkins, as one of San Diego's deputy chief operating officers, had played a pivotal role in overseeing the 101 Ash Street project's troubled renovations in 2019 and 2020.