SEQUIM — If Kelly and Ray Putman have their way, regional retailer Fred Meyer will not only build a department store in Sequim, but they’ll build it soon.
Joyce Serra is also cheering on a proposed Fred Meyer, targeted for an area southeast of the downtown core near the South Sequim Avenue and U.S. Highway 101 interchange.
Serra and the Putmans — all Sequim residents who’ve recently relocated from the metropolitan Puget Sound area where Portland, Ore.-based Fred Meyer stores are plentiful — are saying what land owner Mark Burrowes wants to hear.
“I thought I’d better come and show my support for the project,” Serra said at an open house on Thursday hosted by Burrowes and Fred McConkey, his partner in a proposed development called Bell Farm Center that would bring a 160,000-square-foot Fred Meyer and several other shops to a single retail center.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.