PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles has given Klukwan Inc. two more weeks to come up with a buyer before it forecloses on the idled mill on Marine Drive.
“We would like to see a business plan and financing commitments from whoever is going to propose to take over KPly,” said Bob McChesney, port executive director, on Friday.
“In addition, we want our hard dollars that would pay back rent and electricity and attorney fees that we have accumulated.
“Our patience is running out.”
Klukwan, an Alaskan company, owns the KPly plywood mill on the Port Angeles waterfront that closed on Nov. 2.
The closure, made permanent April 28, put 132 people out of work.
The company owes the port, which owns the property on Marina Drive, $114,003 in rent and $84,985 in electric bills, McChesney said.
Klukwan will also have to pay the port $2,500 in attorney fees that the port has acquired from a default action filed against the company, he added.
Klukwan board members could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
Port Commissioner George Schoenfeldt has said that former mill employee Josh Remshaw is trying to purchase the mill.
McChesney would not comment on who may be purchasing the mill.
The port originally gave Klukwan a deadline of Aug. 26 to pay the money.
That was extended to Friday, when the port gave the company a two-week continuance because company representatives said that a deal was close, McChesney said.
If the company can’t make its payments, with or without selling the mill, the port will acquire the 67-year-old mill through a default judgment, McChesney said.
