PORT ANGELES — Oak Street conference center and hotel developer Randal Jay Ehm is confident of meeting a March 28 deadline to apply for a building permit.
“I’ve been very busy the past couple months. I don’t see any problems meeting my deadlines,” Ehm told the Port Angeles Lodging Tax Advisory Committee on Monday afternoon.
The City Council recently gave Ehm until March 28, 2004 to apply for a building permit and until Sept. 4 to begin construction.
The city could reconsider its offer of a 20-year, $100,000 annual subsidy from bed tax revenues to pay for marketing the conference center if Ehm misses either of the deadlines.
Ehm is president of Ehm Architecture of Seattle and San Diego.
He has proposed a four-story, 165-room, $17.5 million hotel and conference center with conference space for up to 1,000 people to be built on 3.8 waterfront acres at the corner of Front and Oak streets.
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The rest of the story is in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
