PORT ANGELES — The waterfront’s salmon-colored Landing mall will get new owners.
Port of Port Angeles commissioners Monday agreed to sell the pier and structures to partners Paul Cronauer and Mark Craig, comprising Terminal Landing Co., for $759,000.
One of the principals in the sole competing group for the purchase, Jack Harmon, was angered by the commissioners’ decision, saying he didn’t know the Port board was going to decide on a purchaser at its Monday meeting.
“I did not know they were going to talk about The Landing today,” Harmon said Monday afternoon.
The issue didn’t appear on the Port’s meeting agenda.
“What they did may have been legal, but they have crossed the moral line,” said Harmon, who operates the Victoria Express passenger ferry as well as a water taxi service out of The Landing.
“I have at least $250,000 in improvements there, and they just sold the building out from under me.”
Port President Bill Hannan said the property would be transferred to Terminal Landing Partners when the deal is finalized.
Cronauer, who couldn’t be reached for comment Monday, is a Port Angeles native who has been in the construction business since 1972, developing several projects in the city recently.
Craig has been director of finance for Lighthouse Properties, which leases marina slips in Seattle and Poulsbo.
The slowest part of the process involving The Landing will be transferring the Port’s aquatic tidelands lease with the state Department of Natural Resources to the new owners, Hannan said.
The DNR owns the tidelands below the piers on which the mall and a condemned canning building rest between the MV Coho landing and Port Angeles City Pier.
Harmon is a member of Landing Partners LLC, which formed to buy the building at 115 E. Railroad Ave.
