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Gateway Urban renewal five years later

LEE PERLMAN
THE MID-COUNTY MEMO

The Portland Development Commission held its monthly meeting in Gateway in February, and began with a bus tour of the area to see what its funds had wrought.

What they were shown were some prize trophies, but much of the community’s agenda is still to be met.

Begun in 2001, the Gateway Urban Renewal District covers about 130 acres, bounded roughly by the I-205 Freeway, 106th Avenue, Northeast Weidler and Southeast Market streets. Its mission is to revitalize this area and to stimulate high-density residential and commercial development in keeping with its status as a regional center. The mission also includes adding community amenities, such as parks, that other neighborhoods take for granted.

To bring this about, property taxes generated by new improvements and increased land values, over and above those that existed when the district was created are diverted to a special Tax Increment Fund. These monies are reserved for public improvements and projects for furthering the aims of this district. The PDC administers the program.

Chair Dorene Warner of the Opportunity Gateway Program Advisory Committee, or PAC, served as principal guide for the tour. It included new housing projects such as Cherrywood Village, the Park Vista Apartments, Russellville Commons, Gordon Jones’ new condominium project on Northeast 99th Avenue, and Andy Kelly’s Gateway Apartments. As the tour passed, Warner pointed out such new public facilities as East Precinct, the East Portland Community Center and the Children’s Receiving Center.

Commission members noted such business ventures as the Axis Business Center on Southeast Stark St., Physicians Hospital, and various new businesses and refurbished buildings on Northeast Halsey Street.

There were also unfinished or not started projects, such as Adventist Medical Center, whose new master plan calls for more than 800,000 square feet of new facilities; the 102nd Avenue Improvement Project; the Avamere senior housing project proposed for Northeast 101st Avenue and Pacific Street; developer Ted Gilbert’s plans for his development, The Elements at Gateway, on the adjacent lot; the new Oregon Clinic headquarters and an adjacent parking garage now under construction at the Gateway Transit Center; the planned redevelopment of the Prunedale area; and the future light rail station planned for Southeast Main Street.

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This graphic was created as a handout for the Portland Development Commission board of Directors meeting held last month in Gateway, this overview of the Gateway Regional Center highlights accomplishments, current projects and future plans.
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