2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:44:53 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] The Yards at Union Station, Portland, Oregon
 
Union Station housing development to wrap up next year

by Angela Webber
Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce
December 15, 2011

Approximately 14 years after construction began for the first phase of The Yards at Union Station, the final phase is imminent. A once highly polluted seven-acre brownfield now is an Old Town residential development, and 80 more affordable housing units are scheduled to open in March 2013.

The last phase of The Yards was supposed to be completed in the early 2000s, but it was delayed because of market reasons, according to developer GSL Properties. But Portland City Council, the Portland Housing Bureau and the Portland Development Commission recently approved loans and gap financing for the project.

At a council meeting on Wednesday, Portland Mayor Sam Adams commented that the project "took longer than we thought." He was a project manager with the PDC when planning for The Yards started in 199

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For the entire article, see
http://djcoregon.com/news/2011/12/15/union-station-housing- development-to-wrap-up-next-year/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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