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Page A-6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016
Funding main concern for commission
By GORDON WEEKS
gordon@masoncoun com
The former Simpson Lumber Co. roundhouse is at
the crossroads.
Simpson has offered to sell the City of Shelton
its roundhouse property on the Shelton waterfront
and about two miles of railroad line within the city
limits.
At the Shelton City Commission meeting on Mon-
day, City Administrator Ryan Wheaton asked the
commissioners to offer their opinion on five options:
• Buy the roundhouse and railroad and construct
a museum projected to cost $28 million.
• Buy the roundhouse and railroad, and then
mothball the roundhouse and remove an electrical
substation at a cost of $450,000.
• Decline the roundhouse and obtain the railroad
to explore rail business.
• Decline the roundhouse, and buy the railroad to
convert the railroad to a trail.
• Decline both the roundhouse and the railroad.
Commissioners Kathy McDowell and Gary Cronce,
the mayor, both said the city should pass on the
roundhouse, but obtain the railroad to explore rail
business or convert it into a trail.
"I would love to support the whole thing .... unfor-
tunately, with the financial situation today, we have
• spent more than we have for a long time," Cronce
said.
The roundhouse comes with too many physical
and financial challenges, Cronce said.
"Unfortunately, I can't see us taking the round-
house .... We don't have access and we don't own it,"
he said.
McDowell said she agreed. She said her father was
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Simpson Lumber Co. has offered to sell the City of Shelton its roundhouse
waterfront and about two miles of railroad line within the city limits.
a logger, and she visited the roundhouse on school
field trips.
But McDowell said she can't justify funding the
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roundhouse.
"It would take a long time in tourism to make $28
million," she said.
Commissioner Tracy Moore has championed a mu-
seum at the roundhouse for years.
"I know it can be done," she said.
Moore said the city should consider the rail line as
an asset that can be used for economic development.
"I really hope we can look at the potential and grab
at that ..... " she said.
Moore asked the other commissioners to postpone
a decision until other options are considered. They
agreed to explore those options in two weeks.
Cronce said he is open to a millionaire stepping
forward to fund the project.
During public comments, five train enthusiasts
stepped up to the microphone to express support for
turning the roundhouse into a museum. They point-
ed out that there are only two in the state, with the
other one in Seattle.
Two of the speakers said the $28 million estimate
for the museum is inflated.
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