PORT ANGELES — The two groups that want to buy the dilapidated “pink building” on the Port Angeles waterfront for the asking price of $1 will meet next week to see if their competing proposals can become one.
“Everyone is talking and trying to see how we can make it work so everyone wins,” said Daniel Gase, president of Coldwell Banker Uptown Realty.
“We’re going to sit down sometime next week.”
Gase and his business partner, Jerry Nichols, proposed Oct. 14 buying the ramshackle, pink-painted building — a former law office — and demolishing it.
The old building has long been seen by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and city officials as an eyesore and a detriment on the tourist-oriented waterfront.
Then Lee Embree proposed buying the 1920s-vintage building and moving it to Olympic Timber Town, a proposed outdoor museum of timber tools and equipment that is now a 57-acre former log yard west of Port Angeles on U.S. Highway 101 in the Indian Creek area.
Embree, president of Olympic Timber Town, said his group’s offer includes moving, repairing and preserving the building.
The state Department of Natural Resources has offered to sell the 800-square-foot building, located on Railroad Avenue just west of the MV Coho ferry landing, for $1 if the buyer would pay for its removal.