PASCO, Wash. – The Osprey Pointe project will look different in the near future. JMS owner James Sexton. Sexton said he’s funded this project himself with the vision of bringing a new affordable area to the city.
Sexton said the project is on hold because he’s waiting on the city to approve the State Environmental Protection Act or SEPA for his project. Sexton said typically it only takes 30 days. He’s been waiting months for news about the project.
Currently, Osprey Pointe has a lot of vegetation and one building, but when the SEPA is approved the project can move forward.
“The whole 55-acre site, there’s (going to be) multi-family,” Sexton said. “There’s apartments, there’s single dwelling, there’s commercial, there’s two hotels going in. A commercial place, an outdoor event center and an indoor event center.”
According to Sexton, the end goal is a new downtown area. Sexton said he and the Port of Pasco have signed the Master Development Agreement. He also said he’s signed a franchise agreement with Wyndham Hotels.
Randy Hayden, the Executive Director of the Port of Pasco, said they’ve been looking at doing something big for a while.
“The first project is going to be a four story multi use building,” Hayden said. “We’ll have ground floor with commercial. It could be a couple of restaurants or retail businesses and then the top three floors with be residential apartments.”
Hayden said since the announcement of the project, the response from the community has been positive overall. He said for those concerned about losing their outdoor recreation spaces, there’s nothing to worry about.
“The walking path will remain with the master plan,” said Hayden. “We’re actually expanding what is the public waterfront side of the development. So there will be even more room for the public along the waterfront.”
Sexton said he doesn’t have a timetable for when he will start construction, but his goal is for early 2024.
