You might not think Whittier—a town with fewer than 300 residents—would be the gateway to multiple cruise ship docks, a major railhead, dozens of glaciers, and a temperate rainforest. You’d be wrong.
An Alaska Marine Highway ferry pulls into the small community of Whittier, Alaska, at the end of Passage Canal. The ferry and the Anton Anderson Memorial tunnel to Whittier are the only ways to reach the community.Alaska
But there’s another side to Whittier that someone just passing through may never see. Most of Whittier’s 280 residents live in the 14-story, or “the BTI” to locals, because Alaska Railroad owns most of the land around the city. Built in the late 1950s as a U.S. Army barracks, the peach-colored condo building has its own post office, library, grocery store, and an underground tunnel that leads to the school.
With more than a half million visitors passing through the tunnel each year and a second cruise ship dock already under construction, Whittier’s volunteer-led government is taking measures to preserve the town’s small community.
“Whittier is a place where there’s still some room for a guy like myself, with just a dream, an idea, and a little bit of capital, to start something new and exciting,” he says. “The conversation that happens in Whittier most often, I think, is about space,” says Loan. “Whether it’s housing or land use, we’re always talking about how we can maximize what we do have.”
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