PORT ANGELES — The architect who wants to build a $17.5 million, 165-room hotel and conference center on the downtown waterfront says it is disappointing that Horizon Air will discontinue flights between Port Angeles and Seattle — but he says the setback is surmountable.
Randal Jay Ehm said he has transportation options in the works, including a San Juan Island-based seaplane charter service and a ferry service.
Ehm is in the process of securing financing for his project at Front and Oak streets.
“We’d already considered things like these other charter vehicles, including planes and buses,” Ehm said in a telephone interview from the offices of Ehm Architecture in San Diego, Calif.
He said passenger ferry service that routinely runs between Seattle and Victoria is also an option.
Ehm said his state shoreline permit allows seaplane service to his proposed facility on the edge of Port Angeles Harbor — and that San Juan Island-based Kenmore Air Seaplanes officials have expressed interest.
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The rest of the story appears in the Wednesday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
