The Port of Port Townsend and the Coast Guard in Port Townsend plan to remove the old building used by the Coast Guard at Benedict Spit at Boat Haven Marina commercial docks to make way for a new building. — Photo by Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News
Jeff Chew of the Peninsula Daily News has the story:
Construction of a new Coast Guard station at Boat Haven Marina could be under way by this summer, Port of Port Townsend officials said.
The port’s 1,600-square-foot building, which the Coast Guard leases for the cutter Osprey crew, is at the end of Benedict Spit in the marina’s commercial docks section.
The building will be removed to make way for a new station.
“The building is in absolutely atrocious condition,” port Executive Director Larry Crockett told the port commissioners Wednesday before they approved the move, in concept.The Coast Guard has told the port it plans to begin construction by this summer. No details were provided about cost or design.
