New Owner for Lincoln Theater?
Dan Gase, City Councilman and the listing agent for the Lincoln Theater, has told KONP that a contingency offer has been tendered on the building. No names or other details have been released yet.
UPDATE:
The buyer is Scott Nagel, local events producer (e.g. the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival) and a former director of Seattle's Folklife Festival. Dan Gase said:
“It is considered a pending sale. We've entered the contingency phase.”
Scott Nagel and his wife, Karen Powell, are searching for some major funding to finance the remodeling and reopening of the Lincoln. He said:
“We did this to get the process started. We're working to raise money to purchase the building, which would then become the property of a nonprofit organization.”
His plan is for the Lincoln Theater to become “the key to the economic future of downtown Port Angeles” and a “resource for the entire Olympic Peninsula.”
UPDATE:
The buyer is Scott Nagel, local events producer (e.g. the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival) and a former director of Seattle's Folklife Festival. Dan Gase said:
“It is considered a pending sale. We've entered the contingency phase.”
Scott Nagel and his wife, Karen Powell, are searching for some major funding to finance the remodeling and reopening of the Lincoln. He said:
“We did this to get the process started. We're working to raise money to purchase the building, which would then become the property of a nonprofit organization.”
His plan is for the Lincoln Theater to become “the key to the economic future of downtown Port Angeles” and a “resource for the entire Olympic Peninsula.”
posted by Tom Harper at 3:57 PM
27 Comments:
"We're working to raise money to purchase the building, which would then become the property of a nonprofit organization."
Why doesn't that sound like the building has actually been sold?
Am I missing something?
The community doesn't have enough money to have it's police enforce traffic laws, and 36% of residents have to have help paying their utility bills.
Priorities?
I'd of course love to see something happen with the Lincoln. But as this post (and this one too: http://goo.gl/knTVty) point out, it really seems what seems to be the norm for Port Angeles projects.
Proper planning prevents poor performance. Why (Gateway) is (marine life center) this (fill in the blank) so painfully elusive in this town?
Insure it and toss a match on it.
Since moving here in 98 I've contributed an extra buck a month to the PUD to help others with their bills. Now I'm wondering if I've just been contributing to pay some jerk that is supposed to be serving the public so he can make a ridiculous wage.
When I lived in Utah we all belonged to an electrical cooperative, we not only got good rates, most years we got a small refund. You folks are so screwed.
Administrators creed: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bullshit that makes you appear to be brilliant."
Yeah, right. "New Owner for Lincoln". Then you read the article and see how far out there it is. The person interested in "buying" the Lincoln doesn't have the money, is still negotiating with Sun Basin and doesn't even want to own the thing. No one has the money. No one wants to own it. But everyone has a "vision" of what the Lincoln could become.
That's one of the many problems with Port Angeles. Too much "vision" not enough sweat to actually get things done. Too many things on credit, not enough realism about these massive projects.
We have to be able to afford what we already have to take care of, before we go out and take on yet another huge project.
Even if this guy is clever enough to convince enough people to give enough money to buy the place, that is just the beginning.
Seems to me people should know what their putting money into, first, before they start giving money to this guy. Like, some kind of specific plan.
How many staff are going to be needed to maintain and run the place? How much is insurance going to be? How much is it going to take to upgrade the place?
What is the total amount we're talking about?
It is amazing to me that the PDN is being so sloppy, and being party to this kind of questionable "reporting". Strangest real estate deal I've ever seen. Is it even really legal?
The headline should have read "Local Realtor Sells White Elephant, Collects Commission. To Be Feted By CoC & PADA."
"Resource for the entire Olympic Peninsula". Sure. In Scott Nagel's mind, maybe.
Are the downtown merchants supporting this? The people involved in the so-called Revitalize PA group? Are they still ignoring the fact that most people in Port Angeles go to Sequim to shop at Costco, etc? How is this crazy project going to address THAT reality?
If people in Port Angeles are stupid enough to fall for this scheme, they deserve what they get. Which will be nothing but more debt.
Maybe they can host the cross dressers' there each year. That would bring in the $$$$.
So, we hear the city has a general fund deficit of over $1 million, and has shut down it's after school program for children.
But, there are those in this town who think we should be spending millions to buy and restore the Lincoln? So that a few can watch old movies, maybe?
The due diligence should include an asbestos survey to determine how much abatement will add to the renovations cost.
I've been telling these monkeys for fifteen years that a motion theater would be a good idea but the monkeys won't listen to me.
The rest of the country is doing well, with the stock market at record highs again.
The news in Port Angeles? Today, unemployment rises to almost 9%. The city can't pay it's police adequately. School kids after school program being shut down. Nippon mill shuts half it's operations down.
So good to see that the leadership in this town is doing such a good job. So good that even in good times, Port Angeles suffers.
I Hope everyone, Tom, BBC, have a nice holiday season and a great 2015.
@ 4:36 AM.....
Same back at you, I'm sure things will be better in 2015 after I move away from here being as I've decided that moving here was a mistake on my part.
Being as I've done went and got old here I want to die where it rains less and the sun shines more.
Hey Billy, good to see you've made your life and happiness a priority. Staying around Port Angeles sure IS a mistake.
Don't you just love the story in the PDN about the fracking company that wants to wrap itself up in "Eco" names.
As if moving all the materials it takes to make and bottle beer all the way out to Forks and back makes any ecological sense. Right, all that needless trucking is really great for the environment. No needless CO2 being created there.
Another case of green-washing. A scam. Make it sound like you care about the environment, use the name "Eco", but make your money fracking in the oil business. Clearly attempting to deceive patrons.
Clallam just seems to attract the scam artists and hucksters like flies to, well, you know.
I'm going to improve the ecology in this town by moving somewhere else to shit.
Hahahahahaha
Not to pry, but do you have a rough idea when you're moving? Just curious.
Thinking of a remote area of the hill country in Texas, went there in October and was impressed with the area.
I'm excited for you Billy. It certainly is a nice area. With the downturn in the oil industry, things will be cheaper. A great time to move there if you aren't looking for a job. Texas is used to cycles like this. So much of the population there is mobile and that will take much of the pressure off and you won't hear so much whining like you do in the Pacific Northwest. It will be like moving from West Virginia to Vermont. LOL. Great food great people great weather and it's cheap. Yes, I know Texas is absolutely nothing like Vermont.
The area around Wimberley is really pretty. A feast for the senses in all seasons. Plus, there are so many interesting out of the way spots, and with gas being cheaper, will be easier for you to explore the area.
And to think, so many of the Dust Bowl refugees moved here, back in the late '30s.
Billy, be sure to stop by Fredericksburg and renew acquaintances with former PA City Manager, Kent Myers! He would be pleased to know that you are emulating (well, sort of...) his example.
I won't bother, will be going to a remote area. It is cheaper to live in Texas, my fixed income will go a bit further. And folks have more freedom there, in the remote areas anyway.
The people running this town got more stupid but better paid, and they expect you serfs to blindly follow them to their fantastic disaster.
Use Power Punch wheel bearing grease cuz a fantastic disaster should be well lubed. hahahahaha
We could learn a lot from what happened in the dust bowl, in Oklahoma. What is bizarre is that there are a lot of people in the Pacific Northwest who are from Oklahoma and have no idea that their parents or grandparents were from Oklahoma. People from Oklahoma we're seen as such scum that people didn't even joke about them.
Several interesting factors come to mind. One is that the land around here was seen as being useless even in the 1930s. Secondly, most Oklahomans were smart enough to not come here. They knew that there was not enough arable farmland and they did not have a taste for huckleberries. Plus, it's so windy, with those big ears, they all got so cold the few that came here.
Not all Oklahoman's were farmers, many came here to work in the mills and forests cuz back then there was work to be done here. Livings to be made.
@ Anon 5:55
You should watch that PBS show about the Dust Bowl that comes on TV periodically. Pretty interesting stuff.
According to them, there were states other than Oklahoma involved, including Texas. And yes, a lot of people who fled the dust storms ended up in Clallam county.
We know the dust storms were created by the same mentality of greed that we see here.
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