“The power of this project is not what it looks like or how many rooms it has or how big it is,” Belding said. The tribe also will begin building a connection to the City of Sequim’s wastewater treatment plant, which is expected to connect to the system in late fall of 2019. He said the tribe has cleared about 5 acres worth of forested land for additional parking, with the trees being repurposed as “woody debris” in peninsula rovers for salmon habitat. Swinerton, a San Francisco, Calif.-based construction company with offices in Bellevue, is the main contractor for the overall project, but Ron Allen said he hopes to use as many local sub-contractors and services as possible.

Tribal officials anticipate the expansion increasing staff from 450 to 550. The project was originally slated to begin in 2008, but tribe officials delayed it because of the national financial downturn at that time, Jerry Allen said in a previous interview. “It will make the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe regional leaders in the hospitality industry.” “It’s going to pave the way for economic growth across the peninsula,” Belding said. Ron Allen, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council chairman, told an audience of more than 150 people that “the eventual product you see here will reflect who we are, reflect the beauty and pristine of the Olympic Peninsula.” Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Groupīelding and Ron Allen said the resort will help establish Blyn as a “gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.”

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