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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 | Vol. 28, No. 50 | www.CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.com | 50¢
County crews finish chip sealing, add new road County crews add stretch of chip-seal road for first time in years By KEVAN MOORE kmoore@soundpublishing.com
Leslie Kelly/ staff photo
A California-based retail development company has plans for a new shopping center near NW Greaves Way and Highway 3, on the western side of Silverdale’s retail hub. The company hopes to have it open and doing business by spring of 2015.
California-based company plans retail development in Silverdale By Leslie Kelly lkelly@soundpublishing.com
It looks like REI might not be the only new retailer coming to Silverdale. The California-based CenterCal Properties has filed plans to develop a new shopping center at NW Greaves Way and Highway 3, on the western side of
Silverdale’s retail center. At it’s current state, the property under consideration is about 17 and a half acres filed with shrubs, trees and tall grasses. There’s isn’t much there right now except a “For Sale” sign and lots of wetlands. But the property is considered to be a great place for retail group, as it’s just a
stone’s throw away from the Kitsap Mall. In an application filed last month with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Washington State Department of Ecology, the developer plans 200,000 square feet of building space that could include a movie theater, restaurants, grocery store and retail outlets.
Fred Bruning, CenterCal’s CEO, said Monday that the company is thrilled to be coming the Silverdale. “We truly love the Pacific Northwest and we’re excited about coming to Silverdale,” Bruning said. Bruning, who was the real estate director of Sears when See RETAIL, A13
CK Fire & Rescue approves beams transfer By Leslie Kelly lkelly@soundpublishing.com
Two steel beams from the World Trade Center site that now sit at Evergreen Rotary Park will soon officially be the property of the city of Bremerton. At its meeting Monday, the board of Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue, which is the legal owner of the beams, voted to allow its chairman, Dave Fergus, to sign documents transferring the ownership to the city of Bremerton. “Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue has been the custodian of the 9/11 beams
since they were given to us by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Fergus said. “I am aware that a document is being prepared by the Port of New York and New Jersey that will transfer ownership to the city of Bremerton which will be the sole owner and be fully responsible for their upkeep.” In order for that to happen, Fergus asked the board to allow him to sign that document once he receives it. The board voted unanimously to give him that authority. The beams are a part of the 9/11 memorial that were dedicated Wednesday on
the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania. A local group, the 9/11 Memorial Committee, has been fundraising for several years to build the memorial. The beams were brought to Kitsap County through the efforts of Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue when it became known that pieces of the World Trade Center buildings destroyed in New York City were being given away by the Port Authority to groups it deemed to be appropriate. Sandstone remains See CKFR, A13
Kitsap County road crews have wrapped up their chip seal work for the summer season. In all, about 74 miles of Kitsap County’s 1,800-plus road miles that are maintained with hot oil and crushed rock. Each summer season, county crews re-cover about 12 miles of roads countywide as part of a regular rotation. This summer, crews covered about four miles in the Central Kitsap area. They also converted a roughly one-mile stretch of Nellita Road, between Seabeck and Holly, from gravel to a chip-seal surface. “I’ve been with the county since 1991 and that was the first new chip seal road that the county has built,” said Kitsap County Road Superintendent Don Schultz. “So, they are kind of fading away. But other than tree trimming and ditching, we won’t have anything to do out there for years. Before we’d typically be out there three or five times a year.” Final figures are still being tallied for the project, just completed a couple weeks ago, but it was budgeted to cost between $95,000 to $110,000. Schultz said when his crews put down one coat of oil and rock, it costs about $13,000 for materials per mile. A one-inch asphalt overlay, meanwhile, costs right around $60,000 per mile. The chip seal will typically last about 12
years, but depending on weather and traffic use can last from 15 to 20 years under good conditions. And that, Schultz says, can add up to big savings for the county. He says that the “horrendous maintenance costs” of sending crews out to Nellita Road, for example, are a thing of the past. The county typically spends between $250,000 to $300,000 per year on chip seal materials, Schultz said. “One of the moving targets there, which is a big variable, is the price of oil,” Schultz said. “That fluctuates pretty dramatically.” Here is a quick look at Central Kitsap Roads that were chip-sealed this past summer: • Arizona Street, from Illahee Road to Washington Street • Washington Street, from Arizona to Utah streets • Utah Street, from Illahee Road to Washington Street • William E. Sutton Road, from Highway 303 to .208 miles northeast of Sungate Road • Holland Road, from Central Valley Road to Tracyton Boulevard • Bunker Street, from Riddell Road to Vena Street • Johnson Street, from Riddell Road to Tracy Avenue • Selbo Road, from Tracy Road to end • 64th Street, from Central Valley Road to Holland Road • Hart Street, from Tracy Road to Nichols • Nellita Spur, from Nellita to Seabeck Holly • Nellita, from the dead end to the existing chip seal