Oak Harbor Downtown Waterfront Development Strategy

Real Estate + Feasibility
Written by Dacie Doucette

Oak Harbor Downtown Waterfront Development Strategy

Oak Harbor, WA · 2025

 

Client: City of Oak Harbor
Location: Oak Harbor, WA
Year: 2025
CP Role: Sub-consultant to Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR)
Practice Area: Real Estate + Feasibility
Team: Rhey Haggerty, Project Manager; Alex Joyce, Development Strategy; Allison Platt, District Incentive Lead; Finley Heeb, Placemaking Lead

 

The Challenge

Oak Harbor wanted to redevelop its downtown waterfront into a mixed-use district, anchored by a City-owned 1.1-acre brownfield site that could launch redevelopment through a public-private partnership. The City needed to understand both the site's conditions and the district's market.

Our Approach

As a sub-consultant to the Center for Creative Land Recycling, we evaluated market feasibility and brownfield conditions for the catalyst site and the wider waterfront. We identified specific steps the City can take to improve market conditions, strengthen feasibility, and start development, and presented the findings at a community workshop.

Outcome

The findings set the stage for a future Specific Plan for Downtown Oak Harbor.

 

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