Kelly Kearsley has the story in the Tacoma News Tribune:
NYK Line is still promising to be at the Port of Tacoma by 2012 – but exactly where is now the question.
The port and NYK announced two years ago that the port would build the Tokyo-based shipping line a container terminal on the Blair-Hylebos Peninsula. The port then filed condemnation actions against several properties in the path of the proposed development and has since spent $137 million buying land for the project.
But now port officials won’t say for certain whether NYK will even be on the peninsula.
“What has changed is that what we originally designed for them isn’t going to work,” port Executive Director Tim Farrell said recently. “There are multiple options on the table and nothing is nailed down.”
Farrell said that terminal options for NYK are spread around the port’s Tideflats property, but he and the commissioners declined to say much more, noting that the port and NYK are still in negotiations.
“It’s hard to say definitively where or what,” said Commissioner Dick Marzano. “The only thing I can say is that in 2012 they will be here.”
