Purchase of Rayonier Mill Site
The Harbor-Works Public Development Authority might soon be purchasing the 75-acre site of the former Rayonier Mill.
Orville Campbell, board chairman of Harbor-Works, said a sale agreement with Rayonier Inc. would allow Harbor-Works to begin the due diligence process before they acquire the property. PCBs, dioxin, arsenic and other contaminants have accumulated during Rayonier Mill’s 68 years of operation.
Harbor-Works was created by the City of Port Angeles and the Port of Port Angeles to help direct the cleanup process and the future use of the site. Orville Campbell said he couldn’t estimate how long this process will take. “We'll have a decision point at the end of that about whether or not we go ahead with the acquisition and control of the property.”
According to Rayonier’s vice president of corporate affairs, Charles Hood, there's nothing definite about the sale; it was only discussed in “very general terms.” He said: “In my mind so far, acquisition of the property is nothing more than hypothetical at this point.”
If the Rayonier site is purchased and cleaned up, it would have great potential for some combination of retail-residential-office-industrial use. But in today’s PDN there was a letter warning that trying to develop the Rayonier site would be nothing but a “money pit.”
What do you think?
Orville Campbell, board chairman of Harbor-Works, said a sale agreement with Rayonier Inc. would allow Harbor-Works to begin the due diligence process before they acquire the property. PCBs, dioxin, arsenic and other contaminants have accumulated during Rayonier Mill’s 68 years of operation.
Harbor-Works was created by the City of Port Angeles and the Port of Port Angeles to help direct the cleanup process and the future use of the site. Orville Campbell said he couldn’t estimate how long this process will take. “We'll have a decision point at the end of that about whether or not we go ahead with the acquisition and control of the property.”
According to Rayonier’s vice president of corporate affairs, Charles Hood, there's nothing definite about the sale; it was only discussed in “very general terms.” He said: “In my mind so far, acquisition of the property is nothing more than hypothetical at this point.”
If the Rayonier site is purchased and cleaned up, it would have great potential for some combination of retail-residential-office-industrial use. But in today’s PDN there was a letter warning that trying to develop the Rayonier site would be nothing but a “money pit.”
What do you think?
Labels: Charles Hood Rayonier Inc., City of Port Angeles, Harbor-Works Public Development Authority, Orville Campbell, Port of Port Angeles, Rayonier Mill
posted by Tom Harper at 2:37 PM
8 Comments:
Another money wasting construction site that will be over budget, behind schedule and pretty much empty of tentants when it's finally finished.
"Money pit" sums it up nicely!
If you like Gateway Center you'll love the new boondoggle at the Rayonier site, whatever it turns out to be.
...Paul L. says:... ;-) .......
..Having "control" of the site is one thing ...Being able to afford to 'clean it up' for a future asset to the city is another.
...I would suspect that the local Tribe will actually control the future of that site - as its "History" far supercedes the occupation by the Rayonier Mill.
So why has the tribe not been included in talks and in the formation of Harbor works?
Keep the tribe's grubby hands off that site...it needs to bring revenue into the area with a good family-wage industry.
Why "clean it?" Pave it over and build a refinery there! Or how about a small Navy base?
Yeah! The Indians are always complaining about something. WHo cares about the tribe or their so-called "history"!
I say build another mill and bring jobs back to our town!
Isn't NOAA looking for a place up here?
Money pit
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