Port Commissioner John Calhoun to speak at PABA meeting
Port of Port Angeles Commissioner John Calhoun will be the guest at this Tuesday's Port Angeles Business Association meeting. He will be discussing the Platypus Marine Inc. proposal to purchase five acres of port land adjacent to its current location on Marine Drive.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:26 AM
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will be interesting to hear his take on the issues.
yes, like the bogus composite recycling center that's about to suck up $5.5 million of taxpayers money and leave behind a building full of hazardous waste
So, the city is spending millions to redevelop the waterfront. The winds are screaming this morning down on the waterfront. I can see how people will bundle up, grab a picnic basket, and head on down to those new fake beaches.
Over the last week, I've been downtown a lot. The sidewalks are virtually empty most of the time.
I go by Swains any time of the day, and the lot is full of cars. They have a number of cash registers, and most times people are lined up at them, waiting their turn to hand over their cash.
I understand the set up with the city. They figured out they can join the "grant funding" scene, and everything is now about grants to do this or that. No end of projects they can come up, and make oh-so important. Everybody involved is getting paid.
Downtown waterfront? As if there are not other, more beautiful areas nearby, where visitors won't have to look at smokestacks and oil tankers.
Funny, I didn't see any of the real parts of Port Angeles in those pretty "artists rendition" of what the waterfront project is going to look like. The log yards, boat yards, oil tankers, industrial piers, etc.
Just like Revitalize Port Angeles, who think they have no patronage because of the homeless people downtown. They can't face the reality of their surroundings, either.
Windy all day, downtown. Was hard to be outside for very long.
I see that the Port Commissioners are speaking against selling the lands they administer, citing a duty to the public trust. And, emails they are receiving are 4 to 1 against selling to Platypus.
Good! This gives me hope for the area. There might be a future for this town, after all.
Gives you hope? I guess you hope there is no growth or jobs and the place turns into a ghost town.
If the Port won't sell to Linnabary, then they should build what he needs and lease it to him at a deeply discounted rate.
Sounds like Linnabary needs to take a class in "leveraging your position"
Duh...
Why are the Port's Executive director and the marine terminal manager planning a trip to Asia to "market" port forestry facilities? Isn't that the job of the Port's forestry tenants such as M&R, Alcan and the outfit at the old K-Ply site? Just pissing $$$$$ away!!!!
" Gives you hope? I guess you hope there is no growth or jobs and the place turns into a ghost town."
As if there has been growth and jobs here over the last 10 or 15 years? Have you been paying attention? The policies of rape, pillage and plunder have resulted in the local economy tanking, sidewalks empty, storefronts that go vacant for years, and a declining population as people move away looking for better communities to live in.
If Platypus can't make it on leased land, why did they sign the lease? Are they stupid? Can't write a business plan?
And, what has Platypus been doing for the last 10 or 15 years? Losing money on their leased lands? If so, are they really that dumb?
Anon 10:16, think this stuff through, and people might pay attention to what you have to say.
"If the Port won't sell to Linnabary, then they should build what he needs and lease it to him at a deeply discounted rate."
I tried that at Safeway. I got a basket full of groceries, got them rung up at the register, and then asked the checker to give me a deep discount, or else I would go to Costco. I didn't get any discount, but the people in the line behind me got pretty pissed off.
So, I went to Costco, loaded up a big cart full of good stuff, went to check out, and after they rang everything up, I asked them for a deep discount. They called security.
Figuring I had a right to a deep discount, I went to Les Swabs, and had them put a nice set of new tires on my car, had them high speed balance them, the whole bit. When it was all done, and they resented me with the bill, I asked for a deep discount. They said "Pay up, or we'll call the police. You were aware of the price of the tires and charges for tire balancing when you signed the work order".
Nobody in town would give me a deep discount. What's up with that?
It wouldn't be fair to the other port tenants to do a sweet heart deal and deeply discounted rates. Some port tenants have had their rates raised over 1,400%. What makes one tenant more special then the other. The port property manager admitted that the rates weren't raised because of the state auditor but rather it was a collective decision by the commissioners to screw over their tenants. The state auditor has no jurisdiction over the ports business but the port used their onerous report as an excuse to screw over their tenants. The city nor the county has any oversight. The commissioners are more interested in building publicly financed legacy corporations. You simply can't trust them.
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