Bellingham waterfront plans face City Council this summer

Plans for bringing the city's 237-acre industrial waterfront back to life are ready for final review by City Council.

The plans envision a waterfront where existing marine industries will continue to operate, but they also provide a blueprint for transforming a wide swath of industrial land that has been dormant since Georgia-Pacific Corp. shut down its pulp and paper operations. The pulp mill closed in 2001, and the tissue mill turned out its last rolls of toilet paper in 2007.