SEQUIM — A distribution center for Victorian hardware would be welcome in Sequim, the mayor said Monday.
A bid to rezone land for a building to house the business in Port Townsend was rejected by the City Council in December.
Sequim Mayor Walt Schubert has volunteered to lead the push to attract Kenneth Kelly’s distribution center to Sequim.
“If Port Townsend continues to reject Mr. Ken Kelly and his plan to relocate his Victorian hardware business in Port Townsend, I would encourage him to consider Sequim,” Schubert said Monday.
Sequim was the second Clallam County city to make a bid for the 20,000-square-foot distribution center, which Kelly said would employ more than 20 people in three businesses relocated from San Jose, Calif.
City officials and Chamber of Commerce members in Port Angeles also extended an invitation for Kelly to locate his business in the Gateway City the day after the Port Townsend zoning rejection.
Jefferson County commissioners have also invited Kelly to consider unincorporated industrial areas near — but outside — the Port Townsend city limit in the hopes that Kelly’s Anglo American Brass Co., American Home Supply and Vintage Hardware would stay in Jefferson County.
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