Excellent points.
The article didn't directly say it but we are subsidizing the port with our property taxes. It is a money loser. Worse it represents environmental and economic anachronisms.
If the Port were to operate at its highest and best use as the author suggested we would all be better off financially. We would not only not be paying taxes for a failed business model, we would be generating positive revenues through tax collections for sales taxes and all of our homes and businesses would be increase in value as a result of increasing the desireability of living in the Thurston County area, ala Granville Island.
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