PORT TOWNSEND – U.S. Sen. Patty Murray will join Port of Port Townsend and other city leaders for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Hudson Point Marina on Friday.
The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. at the marina’s northwest gangway, which leads to a new kayak launch and boat slips.
The $4.1 million marina project lacks weather-delayed dredging and finish work, said Port Executive Director Larry Crockett.
Port, city and Northwest Maritime Center officials will ask Murray, D-Shoreline, for additional funding, he said.
“With the esplanade and all other access elements, it is expected to cost another $750,000,” Crockett said.
The esplanade, a walkway, would connect the city’s future downtown streetscape project with the future Northwest Maritime Center at the end of Water Street and adjacent to the marina.
It would also wind around the marina.
City leaders are discussing such a walkway leading from the old Quincy Dock at Quincy Street northward to the Maritime Center on the historic downtown waterfront.
In 2000 and 2004, Murray and U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, were instrumental in securing more than $1 million in special appropriations for construction of the Northwest Maritime Center.
Dicks, who is not expected to attend the Friday ceremony, will be represented by a Port Angeles-based staff representative.
Dicks is expected in Port Angeles today to tour three multimillion-dollar projects.
The three projects are the new science and technology building at Peninsula College – which will houses classes in the fall – the Elwha River dams removal and river restoration planned by the National Park Service, and the Port Angeles International Gateway Transportation Center now under construction.
