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05/02/2005: "The Port Still Shows Interest In Buying Old Cannery"

Cannery Property At Jackson Beach On San Juan

The Economic Development Council (EDC) has embarked on a study of the possible uses of the now unused cannery at Jackson Beach on San Juan island. Jackson Beach is owned by the Port of Friday Harbor, and is next to the hotly contested Lafarge Beach and adjoining gravel pit that the former BOCC set out to purchase using money generated by the sale of General Obligation bonds.

Steve Simpson stated the Port is contributing $10,000.00, $5,000 in cash, and $5,000.00 as a contribution to the EDC toward a $30.000.00 study of the acquisition and use of the old Cannery building and property at the end of Jackson Beach. The Cannery is for sale, and has been listed with a sale price as high as five million dollars. The EDC, a local non-profit organization, has acquired a grant from the local Community Development Council, a government organization set up to ostensibly aid and fund economic development though the awarding of grants. Many of the grants go only to other government organizations, or other non-profit public groups