PORT ANGELES — A small group of Port Angeles Downtown Association members Wednesday night supported a redesigned Gateway International Transportation Center which will include a waterfront promenade and replacement parking.

After two hours of presentations, 15 members of the downtown group who were still in attendance at a meeting called by the Downtown Association voted unanimously in a straw poll to support the project.

The informal vote came after city and association officials said downtown merchants will likely have to pay $800,000 to about $1 million — in the form of increased downtown assessments over many years — to help fund the project.

The remaining funding of more than $10 million would come from federal transportation dollars as well as government and other public sources.

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