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Port reviews Northeast Campus site concept plans to guide marketing and development
Summary
Commissioners received an informational presentation on 16 site concept plans paid from the Port2024 capital budget. Plans show maximum building footprints, parking, emergency access and landscaping; utilities are largely in place except fiber. The work is intended for marketing and to clarify what can fit on each lot.
Port of Bremerton commissioners received an informational presentation April 22 on site concept plans for the Northeast Campus that the commission funded in the 2024 capital budget.
The plans, prepared under a roughly $65,000 contract awarded to Normal and Associates and paid from a $100,000 allocation in the 2024 capital budget, show maximum building footprints for each lot, parking layouts, emergency-vehicle access, pedestrian and bicycle access, required setbacks and landscaping. Port staff said about $41,184 had been spent so far and the contract was near completion, with one additional item outstanding.
The plans are intended for marketing and to give prospective tenants and brokers a reliable, code-compliant starting point. Staff noted the drawings include artist renditions to help market sites and make it easier to match property lots to prospective building sizes. For example, the plan for one lot shows an 8,700-square-foot manufacturing area plus about 1,500 square feet of office on a roughly 1.79-acre, irregularly shaped lot; other combined lots were shown with footprints large enough for 30,000-square-foot buildings. In total staff said 16 site concept plans were prepared, including combined and single-lot options.
Staff explained the sites are "pad-ready" for water and electrical service, which is underground; fiber is not placed at the lots to avoid theft when sites are vacant. Commissioners and staff discussed that the plans do not set mandatory architectural design criteria for future buildings; design and detailed engineering will remain the responsibility of whichever tenant or developer ultimately builds. Staff added that new leases are being written to require tenants to maintain landscaping and property appearance, shifting upkeep from the Port to tenants on newer agreements.
Commissioners noted the Port previously invested in infrastructure for the industrial park (staff referenced a prior $3,000,000 investment in utilities and site work) and emphasized that the concept plans should be used as a practical tool to help realize that earlier investment. Staff offered to provide printed packages of the site concept plans and the Port's updated lot map to commissioners for marketing and broker outreach.
Next steps described by staff include finalizing the consultant contract closeout and distributing the full set of site concept plans and artist renditions to commissioners and local brokers for marketing. No formal action was taken; this item was presented for information.
