PORT ANGELES — The Port is seeking a buyer for The Landing mall.
The Port has owned the waterfront complex — which houses restaurants, and offices and the Victoria Express ferry operation — since May 1993.
The Port wants to sell the terminal building and the dock together, “as is, where is,” for at least $675,000.
The building sits on aquatic lands owned by the state Department of Natural Resources, which leases the property to the Port.
A new owner could either take over the last 27 years of the Port’s aquatic lands lease with the state Department of Natural Resources or negotiate its own lease.
“We’ve had some interested queries. So we figured we might as well put it out there and see what happens,” Port President Bill Hannan said on Monday.
Port commissioners floated the idea of selling the Landing Mall during an October 2005 meeting.
Port Industrial Development and Properties Manager Pat Deja said a public hearing to declare the property surplus to the Port’s needs still is necessary.
But the Port won’t go through that lengthy public process until it has an interested buyer, he said.
