PORT ANGELES — Bid documents for the Port Angeles International Gateway Transportation Center project could be ready this month, Clallam Transit System General Manager Terry Weed said.
Once that occurs, the project will be ready to go to bid, pending resolution of property acquisition issues, he said.
Weed joined City Manager Mike Quinn at this week’s Port Angeles Business Association meeting to update the $10.2 million project, slated for an area roughly bounded by Front Street and Railroad Avenue at Lincoln Street.
The project has four components: a two-level parking garage to the west, a bus transit lane, a visitor center to be operated by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and a town plaza.
Quinn told PABA members that once property issues are resolved and the project goes to bid, it will take up to 18 months to build.
The $10.2 million project could be completed by the summer of 2006, he said.
Agency partnership
The project, which is s partnership of the city, Clallam Transit and Port Angeles Downtown Association, will be funded by federal, state and local sources, Quinn said.
He said the funding includes $5.5 million in Federal Transportation Administration money; $1.5 million state Transportation Improvement Board money; $1.5 million in city general fund money; $100,000 from the city’s capital facilities program; $400,000 in visitor center rent charged to the Chamber of Commerce; and $1.2 million in city bonds or other financing.
Quinn said whatever the “funding gap” — once estimated as high as $2.6 million — the city will use parking revenue for it, then capital reserves and the general fund.
