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| The Chandler Maritime Education Building was named with a $1 million gift from the Chandler Family Foundation in 2005.
We are now seeking a suitable donor to name the maritime heritage and resource building with a $2 million gift to begin
construction. Concurrently, building permit applications have been submitted and we are preparing the plans to go to bid. The center has been designed to be a “green” facility and to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold rating. |
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| The new Northwest Maritime Center took a giant step from the drawing boards toward construction, thanks to $2,250,000 approved in the state's capital improvement budget. Local legislators were instrumental in allocating the state money. "I made it a 'go home' issue," said 24th District Rep. Lynn Kessler, speaker of the house. Freshman Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, Sen. Jim Hargrove, and Senate Speaker Frank Chopp, were instrumental in securing NWMC funding. The appropriation recognizes two of Governor Gregoire’s goals: attention to the plight of Puget Sound through the Puget Sound Partnership and an effort to stimulate the education of Washington students with new learning opportunities, |
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| A dilapidated, 70-year-old industrial pier was demolished and replaced with a new 290-foot-long high-trestle pier with concrete pilings and a wood deck, and an “L” of floating docks. Grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Restoration Center funded the eelgrass-friendly design and the planting of 5,000 donated eelgrass shoots. An estimated 400 people thronged out on the pier on the first day it was officially opened to the public in May 2004. Port Townsend youth in the longboat Townshend cut a ribbon suspended between two classic vessels, Bryony and Martha, in a unique on-the-water ribbon-cutting ceremony. |
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In the summer of 2002 five of the six buildings on the site were demolished and 2,500 tons of contaminated soil excavated. The site was capped and opened for public use. The first public event was a regional gathering of 12 Native American canoes. In August U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks officially opened the site. More than 200 people posed for a community portrait at a celebratory “beach party.” |
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In July 1999, the Northwest Maritime Center entered into a purchase and sale agreement to purchase the abandoned Thomas bulk oil terminal on Port Townsend Bay. A month later, we raised $50,000 during the Wooden Boat Festival through the “Land Rush” event - the symbolic sale of the site’s beachfront property for $50 a square foot. In less than a year, more than $600,000 had been raised, primarily from local contributions. A $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development pushed the fundraising goal over the top. We closed on the property in September 2000. |
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The new Northwest Maritime Center will be built in two phases: first the Maritime Heritage and Resource building followed by the Chandler Maritime Education Building. Construction will begin as soon as a donor has been found to name the first building. |
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