PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Harbor-Works Public Development Authority will have Rayonier Inc.’s attention when it approaches the company about acquiring its waterfront site.
“If [Harbor-Works] is going to make a proposal, we would be very interested in hearing it,” said Michael Herman, Rayonier’s vice president and general counsel, on Thursday.
The 75-acre site of a former pulp mill, located at the end of Ennis Street on the Port Angeles Harbor, is worth approximately $5.2 million, according to the Clallam County Assessor’s Department.
The property is also a state Department of Ecology cleanup site and the location of a former Lower Elwha Klallam village.
Orville Campbell, Harbor-Works board chairman, has said that the development authority wants to acquire the land, and plans to approach Rayonier about the possibility within the next two months.
Herman said a proposal from Harbor-Works would have to be seen before the company can determine stipulations about transferring ownership or a possible sales price.
Rayonier has heard a few proposals from people wishing to develop the site since the mill closed on March 1, 1997, Herman said, but nothing concrete ever surfaced.
Those proposals have included commercial and mixed-use development.
“I can’t say we’ve had a lot of very firm proposals,” Herman said.
