PORT ANGELES — Just two days after fire gutted a street-level business and caused serious smoke damage to much of the Elks Naval Lodge, Glenn Larson was upbeat about the future of the city’s tallest building.
Larson, the lodge manager, on Thursday met with a claims adjuster and a fire cleanup crew’s foreman from Seattle to assess the damage and he said he believed actual reconstruction work on the building at First and Lincoln streets could soon begin.
“We’re insured for much more than they’re estimating what the damage is,” Larson said, declining to give a figure.
“As far as I’m concerned I’m looking at this in a positive light. This is a good chance to start over.”
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.