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Bellingham Waterfront Redevelopment Plans Scaled Down
At a joint meeting of City Council and the Port of Bellingham commission the announcement was made of a slimmed-down plan for a redeveloped central waterfront. Of course the plan won't be  finalized until fall, but some key changes from earlier proposals seem to be:
• Postponement of the port's beloved plan to have a marina inside the old Georgia-Pacific Corp. waste water treatment lagoon. • The demolition of the Granary Building, which historic preservation advocates hoped to restore, it's just to costly. • Elimination of a proposed "Log Pond Park" along the shoreline between the old G-P pier and the port's shipping terminal, so the area can be developed as a waterfront industrial job source. • Indefinite postponement of relocation of BNSF Railway Co. tracks that now cut through the site. • Indefinite postponement of a new Cornwall Avenue railroad bridge to link downtown to the waterfront. • Commercial Street bridge, once thought of as a late-stage project, could be built somewhat sooner than envisioned in previous plans, (no dates were offered for the estimated $30 million project.)
The grand vision of the downtown redevelopment was began in the boom times of 2005, the city had revenue and the economic ... more

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