Troutdale’s Urban Renewal agency is proactively trying to transform the site of a former sewage treatment plant to a retail and recreational area.
Troutdale’s Urban Renewal agency is proactively trying to transform the site of a former sewage treatment plant to a retail and recreational area.
The site would combine retail and office space, a convention hotel, and recreational parks and trails.
Given the still-slumbering economy and the property’s disheveled state, that might seem like an exercise in futility.
A series of recent bureaucratic breakthroughs, however — along with the opening of a sprawling FedEx Ground facility on former industrial property nearby — has energized the agency and lent a sense of urgency to preparing the land for an eventual economic uplift.
Read more at The Outlook.
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