[CPEO-BIF] North Portland , Oregon site - after 34 years

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

North Portland brownfield development closer to completion

by Nick Bjork
Daily Journal of Commerce (OR)
June 17, 2010

After 34 years, a four-year advisory committee process and two attempts 
to find a development team, the city is finally making headway on 
efforts to revitalize a former brownfield site in North Portland.

City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to accept the development 
proposal of Woolley Nyanneco LLC for the former gas station site at 8735 
N. Lombard St. The team is made up of local developers Jeana Woolley and 
Roslyn Hill, Portland architect Tom Johnson and Portland-based design 
firm Bloc Design Development.

The team proposes construction of two LEED platinum buildings along 
Lombard Street with a public space/alleyway in between that leads back 
to the existing racquet center. There would be 8,000 square feet of 
ground-floor retail space along Lombard Street and the alleyway, with 
9,200 square feet of second-level residential space. The team is also 
toying with the idea of adding live-work space and affordable housing 
units to the development.

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For the entire article, see
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/06/17/north-portland-brownfield-development-closer-to-completion/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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