Port to Study Mixed-Use Redevelopment of Quay Property

VANCOUVER, WA-The Port of Vancouver Commission today will authorize three related contracts for analysis of whether its Terminal One property, the Red Lion Inn at the Quay, should be replaced with a “much larger” hotel, a conference center and new offices for the port.

Group McKenzie is being paid up to $44,105 for a site survey and preliminary site design, among other things. Maul Foster Alongi is receiving as much as $25,587 for zoning research, airspace analysis, utilities review and topography maps. Parametrix will get up to $16,737 to determine existing site capacity, downtown parking capacity, and how they relate to the MAX Light-Rail Study and the I-5 Corridor Plan.

If ultimately approved, the development would replace an effort by the City of Vancouver and Arizona developer Jerry Jenkins of Renaissance Resources Group to develop a hotel, conference center and special events pavilion just south of Esther Short Park.