PORT ANGELES — After being closed since a Jan. 21 fire, downtown’s popular Cornerhouse Restaurant will reopen in four to six weeks if weather permits, owner Joanne Birkland said.
“The roof is holding up the whole (project),” Birkland said. “We have done all the cleanup and repair downstairs.”
Upstairs is the Pershing Hotel, a residential hotel that tops out the three-story building at 101 E. Front St.
Arson is suspected as the cause of the blaze, which began in a hotel room and forced more than a dozen residents out of their rooms shortly before midnight Jan. 21.
Billy Ray Barlow, 30, who had been living in the third-story apartment for about a week, is charged with first-degree arson in connection with the fire.
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