Five Port Angeles Businesses Closing
Rick's Place and Thai Peppers closed last month, along with United Rentals, located near the old Wal-Mart store. Tiger Lily has moved to Port Orchard and expects to reopen in mid-November.
Waste Not Want Not, 724 East First Street, will be closing at the end of this month.
Waste Not Want Not, 724 East First Street, will be closing at the end of this month.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:00 AM
26 Comments:
Oh - but Port Angeles will soon sport a beautiful new $17 million "waterfront esplanade" and visitor improvements that will enhance the city's economic development so much that the loss of these businesses will be as but a piffle in the wind.
United Rentals? Wow, who would have guessed. And I shopped at Waste Not Want not at times.
Well, this town is just going to have to adjust to becoming a smaller town, and frankly, I'm okay with that, I like small towns better.
It doesn't make sense to me to spend so much public money on improving the waterfront along Railroad Ave. To me, it doesn't look that bad as it is. It is a ferry terminal, with a sidewalk and some parking spaces and some flower planters, etc. Why would the city want to exert so much effort to draw people to an area that doesn't have easy proximity to most downtown businesses and restaurants? Oh ---- duh. The one business that stands to benefit most is owned by Edna; the property itself is owned by a well-connected-to-the old guard crony. Just another way to pick the pockets of the public in the name of "economic development".
More businesses closing in Port Angeles? Oh, my heart be still! I NEVER would have expected THAT!
We keep being told everything is great, and getting better in Port Angeles. Of course it is.
And, the "waterfront esplanade"? I saw one of the people posting on the PDN site about this say something about the consultants getting paid. As with all of these big, multi-million dollar projects, look and see how much money goes to consultants.
Like the one for that sewage overflow thing. The same consultant that created the information to support the need for that project, is also the same consultant that gets all the work to design it!
How convenient.
It is my opinion that the city leaders refuse to see things as they are and will insist on trying to get bigger, as if bigger is better.
Shoot, if they think bigger is better they should move to Seattle or Olympia.
Something their minds don't recognize is the fact that they want more to lord over, as long as they can get others to pay for it, they certainly don't want to, they just want great wages and benefits.
In a few more years they'll try to expand the city limits again so they have more to lord over, we'll again fight against that. Those damn terrorists can stay out of our lives.
And Barb still is thinking things are just great. The restaurants closed because no one wanted to BUY THEM. She not only doesn't get it, but might as well keep the band playing on the deck while the ship sinks. She can whistle along.
no reason to spend money on the waterfront, except that the city got a grant and can suck some of the money for the coffers. It's a stupid idea, and sure to be an eyesore. Who wants to go hang out at a waterfront near a ghost town?
United Rentals fleeced so many customers with their b.s. pricing policies, and crappy customer service. I gave up on them years ago, I'll go as far as Tacoma to rent equipment, because they really were THAT BAD. Seemed to me like the owners had some issue -- gambling, drinking, drugs, who knows, but they had a viable business except they nickle-and-dimed every customer who walked in the door. They couldn't pick up equipment because of a massive snow storm, so they keep the meter running and charge for extra days! They sent out broken equipment and charged for a half day, just because. They wouldn't buy back supplies not used (sand paper, for instance for a floor sander) because it was "damage" (was not). Screw them, hope they enjoy the karma.
The "Gateway" is lonely.
Now bend over and say ahhh.....
The "Gateway" is lonely.
Now bend over and say ahhh....
Thank Us later.
Gaitwai is mi homes!
rumor has it Westport is moving to Taiwan and ACTI will be gone in 5 years
Five whole businesses closing? This is the end of Port Angeles for sure!
The gun shop by me closed, now I'll have to go to Sequim to buy my next gun.
Yeah, I know that there's a gun shop on eight, but I have a valid reason for not shopping there.
Westport won't move to Taiwan, well, maybe they will, they only came here for some good deals from the city and port and cheaper wages.
As far as I'm concerned Westport lied to us about the wages they would be paying, remember, I was in the business association back then.
As I understand it the second boat out of that shop went to the owner, pretty damn good deal for the owner, yes?
F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The Rich Are Different Than You And Me". He was right. They consume a lot more of everything.
the state is breathing down Westport's neck for failure to pay sales tax, and the Feds want to collect taxes on all the yachts they pretend to deliver offshore.
@BBC
Westport should leave, this damn town is so pathetic when it comes to business. I'm surprised they all aren't gone.
Come on now, Westport loves us.
I understand that the new PDN owners have appointed former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as the editor. I'm sure we'll see an improvement in the PDN's journalistic standards now.
The PDN continues to struggle with the concept of publishing a web edition.
Last night they announced that only people with a Facebook account would be able to use that account to comment on future PDN articles.
"The news industry is clearly moving away from anonymous commenting, and we are proud to be in the forefront."
No major paper in Seattle disallows anonymous commenting. Ditto for the Kitsap Sun (excellent commenting format) even the other papers in the news group that will soon take over the PDN allow anonymous commenting.
Several comments were made last night via Facebook on the PDN article announcing the new policy.
By this morning- for some reason- those comments had been stripped away. None were inappropriate or off-topic.
Thank you Port Angeles Online for allowing people to comment using the identity of their choosing.
Anonymous commenting makes perfect sense in the case of someone working in county government, a local military base, private industry, etc. who has info to share that benefits a discussion but does not want to call attention to themselves.
Alex Hepler
Port Hadlock
Yes, I noticed the PDN had changed their commenting format.
I don't have a facebook account, and don't intend to get one. I have heard too many stories about how facebook collects personal information; in fact, that is EXACTLY their business model. I think it is really pathetic that the PDN staff think only those that agree to participate in having their personal information harvested and sold for profit can voice an opinion at their site.
The town continues to decline.
Yes, the PDN's decision just means that visits to their website will drop, as will any lingering appreciation for the paper as a whole. During this last election cycle, I submitted a letter (pro-Bruch in nature) that I never even got a call to confirm. I have heard from two other people that submitted similar letters that they were told (on Monday and Tuesday this week) that their letters had been "accidentally" lost in the process, and that's why they never made it to print.
Right.
Given the recent sale of the PDN to outside interests...And given the rather obvious censorship that letters to the editor are subject to, as well as their attempts to shut down comments online...And given the general lack of skilled/accurate writing in the PDN...AND given that blogs such as this can serve as a source of some (note, SOME) important local information...I'm now an advocate for all people of a progressive bent to boycott the PDN. Later today I'll be going in to cancel my subscription, and to tell them why.
Enough is enough. I'd rather stumble along with partial news rather than have to deal with their skewed take on reality.
There is always a turn around in the downtown with business, nothing new. It has nothing to do with today's economy, it has everything to do as how these business owners ran their business, or other reasons.
"There is always a turn around in the downtown with business, nothing new. It has nothing to do with today's economy,.."
You really believe this?
Of course, there are always people who are better or worse at running a business, but it doesn't make sense to say that Port Angeles is isolated from and insulated from problems in the county, state, national and international economies.
It is no secret that over half the people employed here work for government agencies of some kind. As their budgets get cut, and they get laid off (see article in today's paper about 15 county employees being laid off), they have less ability to buy things. Foreclosure homes sit empty (I drive by a number, every day). People have moved away.
So, it is obvious there are less people spending less money.
But, you'll believe what you want, I'm sure.
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