Bainbridge Island Review, June 28, 2019

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Bainbridge festival celebrates LGBT Pride Month

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Commissioner Becky Erickson talks about the sale of the 550 Madison Apartments during the housing authority’s meeting earlier this week.

Developer retracts offer to purchase apartment building BY BRIAN KELLY Kitsap News Group

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Lucas Scheelk strikes a pose during Sunday’s festivities at Waterfront Park.

The third annual Bainbridge Pride Festival — boasting a bevy of guests, performers and activities — was again held at Waterfront Park, once more celebrating the island’s LGBTQ community and its allies, on June 23. Nationally, June is More inside LGBT Pride Turn to Pages Month, so A16-A17 for more chosen to photos of this year’s commemBainbridge Pride orate the Festival. Stonewall riots, which occurred in June 1969. The islandbased celebration, organized by Bainbridge Pride, featured food, local vendors, a beer-and-wine garden, speakers, live music.

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A flamingo-piloted radio-control car delighted kids playing near the vendor booths at Bainbridge’s Pride Festival.

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The developer who had plans to purchase the 550 Madison Apartments no longer wants to buy the building from Housing Kitsap. Mike Burns of Madison Avenue Development said in an email that he did not want to compete for a purchase of the property against Housing Resources Bainbridge or the city of Bainbridge Island and was retracting his offer of $2 million for the 13-unit apartment complex. Madison Avenue Development was one of 13 entities to make an offer on the 550 Madison Apartments. Housing Kitsap began efforts to sell the apartment building, one of three prop-

erties it owns on Bainbridge that offers housing to lowand moderate-income families, earlier this month. Burns, who owns property adjacent to the 550 Madison Apartments, had submitted the highest offer for the complex. Madison Avenue Development said it would pay $2,031,000 for the building, and Burns and Housing Kitsap had already signed a purchase-and-sale agreement. The sale needed final approval from the board of commissioners for Housing Kitsap, but at Tuesday’s board meeting, officials put the offer on hold for 30 days to allow Housing Resources Bainbridge and the city of

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