Orcas Island’s Pea Patch Campus project seeking $7.8 million from State
Thursday, January 23, 2025
by Jeff Noedel
video by Jeremy Tyler
A SanJuans.Today VIDEO FROM OLYMPIA IS BELOW
OLYMPIA, WA–Suzanne Olson is the project lead for the Pea Patch Community Campus project on Orcas Island. She was in the Washington State Capitol complex Wednesday “doing some reconnaissance” in preparation for an Orcas Island delegation to visit the Capitol on February 12.
The Pea Patch Community Campus is being developed by the OPAL Community Land Trust, the Orcas Island Food Bank, and the Orcas Community Resource Center.
From the lobby of the Senate Office Building, Olson told SanJuans.Today, “We are asking for $7.8 million to fund the second phase of this project, which is the site work, and by building that site work, getting that funded and built, it unlocks the housing component, which is already funded and shovel ready. So as soon as we get the site work done, we can build those houses.”
