PORT ANGELES — If the state wants to build a “graving dock yard” at the Port of Port Angeles, the Port will make property available for “just compensation” — provided that the deal also meets all Port and community needs.
The three Port commissioners voted unanimously Monday to provide land just east of Daishowa America’s mill for the facility, which would be owned and operated by the state Department of Transportation.
If Port Angeles is picked for the graving yard — the state is also looking at a site in Tacoma — it could have an overall economic impact on the North Olympic Peninsula of $19 million and create about 120 new jobs, some of them paying about $56,000 a year.
But Port Commissioner Bill Hannan stressed that the Port must proceed cautiously “to protect the Port and the community” — and the deal must consider the future needs of the local timber industry, which needs acreage at the waterfront to store logs before shipment.
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