The Department of Economic Development is conducting an online survey to learn more about what the community would like to see at the former 6-Mile sawmill property, which the borough purchased last summer for $2.5 million.
“Can we narrow in on aspects of development,” Economic Development Director Kate Thomas said last week.
The 10-question survey follows up on a town hall meeting last December — attended by close to 40 people — at which community members tossed out and tossed around multiple uses for the waterfront property.
The borough purchased the site with the idea that offering the 32 acres for sale or lease would be more productive than if the former owner pieced it out in multiple sales of small parcels, while also giving the community more of a voice in future uses.
The survey started up last week and will stay online until the first week of July, Thomas said.
One question asks, “What would you most like to see offered at the site?” The survey asks people to check off preferred uses for the site, such as tourism, marine services, mariculture, scrap metal and other recycling, and several other possibilities.
The purpose for the survey, Thomas said, is for the borough to learn more about what the community wants to see at the property. “What is out there that we don’t know yet?”
Any lease or sale of the property would require borough assembly approval. Since taking ownership a year ago, the borough has signed just one short-term lease — with Juneau-based Channel Construction, which ran a scrap metal recycling and shipping operation at the site.
People can go to Wrangell.com/economicdevelopment and click on the survey to answer the short questions.
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