City Hall is next to an office building that duplicates the historic Sidney Hotel, which was the image presented by most of Port Orchard's promotional material for decades. The hotel burned in the 1980s, long after it quit functioning as a viable building, and was replaced by the office building. A huge marina dominates the city waterfront, which also has a city park where summer concerts are held. Two downtown blocks of Bay Street in the original city core are fronted by a wooden marquee that covers the sidewalk. It supposedly creates a nautical theme, though it's as likely to evoke images of the Old West.
Overlooking downtown is the county courthouse.
Port Orchard is the oldest city in Kitsap County and been the county seat since 1893. Much of Bay Street was built on land reclaimed from Sinclair Inlet early in the 20th century, when the filling of tidelands was allowed. The town's numerous antique stores play well with the historical feel of downtown. In the mid-1980s, businesswoman Geri Bruckart launched a plan to bring new life to downtown by capitalizing on the past. Instead of competing with the mega-malls, she opened the Olde Central Antique Mall.