PORT TOWNSEND — Port of Port Townsend commissioners are scheduled to meet at new Port administration offices Wednesday night as a $1.4 restoration of the old hospital building at Point Hudson nears completion.
Work has included asbestos removal, electrical work, heating, sealing the floor to reduce the odor of creosote, and painting.
Aldergrove Construction of Port Angeles was hired last year to restore the so-called hospital building, one of the white Point Hudson structures built in 1933 as an immigration station for Asians entering Puget Sound.
“It’s all set to be done in the next five to six weeks,” said Don Taylor, Port finance director, who was packing Wednesday to move out of the current offices at 333 Benedict St.
The port has occupied the Benedict Street site since 1990.
That space has been leased to Jefferson Associate Counsel public defenders, said Taylor.
Office space leased
Meanwhile, Taylor said, all but one office space has been leased in the 8,400-square-foot building at Point Hudson.
Port administrative offices will take up about a third of the two-story building’s space.
The Port commissioners are slated to meet for the first time at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the new Administration Office Conference Room.
