Port Angeles Waterfront Property Development
As you probably read the other day in the Peninsula Daily News, a new development project will soon be coming to the property at Oak and Front Streets in downtown Port Angeles. (Here’s the link.)
Black Diamond Harbor Plaza will tentatively include retail space, a restaurant, condominiums and an underground parking garage. Construction might start this summer.
The property is owned by Harry Dorssers, who bought the land from the Port of Port Angeles in September 2006.
So, what do you think of this project? Will it be good for downtown Port Angeles? I’d like to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. When this project is complete, a lot more people will be living in downtown Port Angeles. These will be affluent people who live within walking distance of everything downtown Port Angeles has to offer. This can only be good, right?
What do YOU think?
Black Diamond Harbor Plaza will tentatively include retail space, a restaurant, condominiums and an underground parking garage. Construction might start this summer.
The property is owned by Harry Dorssers, who bought the land from the Port of Port Angeles in September 2006.
So, what do you think of this project? Will it be good for downtown Port Angeles? I’d like to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. When this project is complete, a lot more people will be living in downtown Port Angeles. These will be affluent people who live within walking distance of everything downtown Port Angeles has to offer. This can only be good, right?
What do YOU think?
Labels: Black Diamond Harbor Plaza, Harry Dorssers, Port Angeles Waterfront, Port of Port Angeles
posted by Tom Harper at 11:51 AM
6 Comments:
They're planning to build an underground garage, 2 stories deep, in a field that floods every winter. Good luck with that.
what will happen should a few pottery shards or arrow heads show up?
Affluent people? In Port Angeles?
I like this field the way it is. People flying kites, walking their dogs, enjoying the view of the estuary. Why doesn't this guy build his fancy condo somewhere else.
I have a few problems with this proposed development.
The first is that the building has nothing to do with down town P.A. It will not fit in with the existent architure of the down town area and will stand out like the proverbial sore thumb. Clearly the architects have not paid a visit to the down town area.
Second, what is going to attract these "affluent people" to P.A.? They're certainly not going to work down town and where are other "affluent" jobs in P.A.? Surely the devlopers aren't expecting moneyed retirees to take up these luxury condos?
Third, why do we need more store fronts in the down town area? There are plenty of existing retail/restaurant spaces that have been empty for years. Why not fill in the gaps between existing buildings? What about all the available commercial space in the Landing Mall? If apartments are needed there are plenty of spaces above existing retail places that could be turned into apartments.
When every existing space is filled with viable commercial enterprises/apartments then I'd say go ahead and build more commercial/housing space. Until then this is simply another white elephant project which will remain empty.
Some people say "retail attracts retail," that existing stores downtown will benefit from these new shops. Anybody know if that theory is true?
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