PORT ANGELES — The biggest opponent of the proposed Oak Street hotel and conference center says if the city hires a hotel consultant to study the proposal and releases the results, he will drop his opposition to the project.
Otherwise, says Tod McClaskey, owner of the Best Western Olympic Lodge in Port Angeles, he will keep suing to try to stop it.
McClaskey’s latest demand, made during a telephone interview with the PDN on Monday, echoes similar ultimatums he made last summer.
And, again, Port Angeles Economic Development Director Tim Smith noted that such a market analysis has been already done — repeatedly — for the city.
“They’ve told us it won’t be easy, but with the right market, right marketing, right niche it can work, and we’ve taken that to heart,” Smith said.
“Apparently, that is what McClaskey is afraid of.”
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.