PORT ANGELES — A harborfront extension of The Waterfront Trail and a “green belt”‘ that will be a public park are part of plans for the $16.5 million Marriott Hotel and conference center.
The four-story, 150-room facility will be built at least 200 feet from the edge of Port Angeles Harbor.
“It’s a great deal for the city,” says Tim Smith, city economic developer.
“The city gets a Francis Street-like park on the waterfront at no cost — and the developer shares the cost of putting The Waterfront Trail through this stretch of property, which is something the city thought it would have to shoulder alone.”
The hotel/conference center will be built in the southeast corner of 3.8 waterfront acres near the intersection of Front and Oak streets.
Between the facility and the water will be The Waterfront Trail and green belt.
The Waterfront Trail will go west from Oak Street along the northern edge of the lot above the riprap of Port Angeles Harbor and past the existing commercial fish-unloading pier.
It will then turn at the northwest corner of the lot and go south next to the Valley Creek Estuary.
Between the trail and the hotel/conference center will be the green belt — actually, it may more native beach plants than lawn, to meet the state’s desire to see original ground cover reinstated.
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