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Bob Hotel?

Marina owners Steve and Meagan MacKay are looking at adding a hotel as the first step in their plans to fill in the undeveloped land around the yacht basin.

“I think the Point needs a little something to draw more people here,” said Steve MacKay. He said the company was now working with designers and the county on the possibility of building a small hotel and a retail area, restaurant or spa facility on the land that lies on the east side of the harbor entrance.

“Any other real estate development would follow because you’d have more amenities,” MacKay said. “It would be another amenity package for the real estate.”

Before plans can move forward on a hotel though, MacKay said they would need to develop a long-term plan for the development of marina property. “What Whatcom County wants to see now is more of a master plan, what’s coming next,” he said.