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Agreement would require dock operator to vacate terminal within five years; $2.8 million grant set for wharf acquisition, sewer and relocation work
Summary
A staff speaker said the port agreement requires West Michigan Dock to vacate terminal operations within five years of the start of Fisherman’s Landing port operations and lays out use of a $2.8 million state enhancement grant to buy the 3rd Street Wharf and fund sewer and LST relocation.
An unidentified staff member said the draft agreement requires Mark Dock/West Michigan Dock to vacate terminal operations within five years of the commencement of port operations at Fisherman’s Landing, and that the contract contains a written definition of when port operations begin.
The detail matters because the agreement ties property and funding actions to that start date. The staff member said the city would acquire the 3rd Street Wharf parcel and that, after the acquisition, 50% of the remaining $2,800,000 state enhancement grant allocation would go toward sewer work and LST relocation. “They would have to vacate the terminal operations within 5 years of the commencement of port operations at Fisherman’s Landing,” the speaker said.
According to the staff speaker, the agreement requires West Michigan Dock to record deed restrictions across the docking area after vacating, and an acknowledgment of the previously included restricted covenants remains in the agreement. The draft also specifies appraisal procedures for affected property; the speaker said those procedures mirror the appraisal process already used for campground properties in prior agreements.
The staff member described the grant breakdown only as: acquisition of the 3rd Street Wharf parcel, then allocation of remaining funds with roughly half directed to sewer-related work and LST relocation. The speaker also said the sewer would need to be relocated to accommodate the planned infrastructure changes.
The agreement text was described as defining key terms and processes — including how to determine the commencement of port operations and how appraisals and deed restrictions will be handled — but no vote or final adoption was reported in the provided transcript. The speaker did not provide a timeline for acquisition or for the sewer and LST relocation work beyond the five-year vacate requirement tied to commencement.
