Port Angeles: Panel accepts newest conference center marketing plan

Published 12:01 am Friday, November 1, 2002

PORT ANGELES — A revised marketing plan for the proposed Oak Street hotel and conference center was accepted by the city’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee on Thursday afternoon.

Now, city officials will negotiate a timeline with developer Randal Ehm for securing financing and a hotel franchise agreement and submitting a management plan.

Those tasks could be done in four months with a lot of work, the committee was told.

City Economic Development Director Tim Smith said Thursday that a development timeframe is necessary because of the proposed International Gateway transportation center project.

That’s because the hotel and conference center plan includes a parking garage, which also would replace many of the parking spaces lost to the planned Gateway project, he said.

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