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Gateway Transit redevelopment advances LEE PERLMAN THE MID-COUNTY MEMO
The proposal, discussed earlier this year, would involve creation of a medical office building on the south end of the transit center parking lot by the clinic and the Gerding/Edlen Development Company, and the construction of a two-story, 610 space parking garage on the north end. The latter will cost $8 million, with at least $4 million coming from the Gateway Urban Renewal Districts tax increment funds. Staffer Sara King told the PDC commission that the clinic now plans to initially build a structure four stories high and containing 106,000 square feet, up from original plans for three stories and 90,000 square feet. In subsequent phases they plan to add more medical facilities and either housing or retail to the structure, and to build two more large structures on the remaining two acres of the transit center. The main concern of the Opportunity Gateway Program Advisory Committee was that too much of the development on this key site was being left to future phases. Phil Armstrong of the Oregon Clinic told the commission that in 10 years his institution has more than doubled in size, and is growing at the rate of 6 or 7 percent a year. King said that the project will bring 275 new jobs to Gateway with an average wage of $33,000 a year, and a contribution to the districts urban renewal funds of $400,000 in its first year alone. PDC hopes to have the project underway by May, to have the garage completed by June 2006, and the office building done by the end of that year. |
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