A company seeking to open an oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Purdy has filed a lawsuit against the city of Gig Harbor, challenging the city’s denial of sewer service to the site.
Minterbrook by the Sea, LLC, filed its complaint in Pierce County Superior Court Dec. 22. The complaint asks the Court to order the city of Gig Harbor to provide sewer service to the company’s property at 13810 Purdy Dr. NW, where their proposed restaurant Laguna’s on the Bay would be located. The finished project would be a two-floor mixed-use building with restaurant, retail and office space, according to permits filed with the county, The News Tribune reported.
Kent Kingman, co-owner of Minterbrook Oyster Company and a governor of the LLC, said in a phone call that the lawsuit was his only way to appeal the city’s decision not to provide sewer…