Granary advocates offer $5 million renovation plan

Architects and would-be developers have presented Port of Bellingham commissioners with a vision of a redeveloped Granary Building that they say could be achieved with $5 million in private investment.

At the Tuesday, Oct. 2, commissoners' meeting, real estate developer John Blethen offered an artist's rendering of what a restored Granary might look like on a redeveloped waterfront. Blethen and partner James Willson envision the Granary as the anchor at the northern end of a waterfront pedestrian corridor that could stretch all the way to Fairhaven.