The project will include a larger waiting area, a workshop for ferry maintenance, office space and a break room. Federal stimulus funding is paying for the new $700,000 terminal.
It's being undertaken in conjunction with a city project to repave Sixth St. Ave. from in front of the ferry landing toward O Ave., or as far as the city's stimulus funding will take it. Repaving Sixth will include new sidewalks, residential parking on each side of the street, east- and west-bound lanes and a ferry holding lane from I to J Aves.
Sixth will also carry a portion of the Guemes Channel Trail, a pedestrian-bike trail planed from downtown to the Ship Harbor area near the Washington State Ferries terminal. The City Council is set to award the repaving contract next week. The repaving is also funded by federal stimulus money.