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Vol. 20, No. 7 • Mailed monthly to over 12, 400 homes in the Gateway & Parkrose Communities Free • NOVEMBER 2004
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Firwood Gardens holds senior health fair
PAC seeks funding for Gateway Transit Center garage
City, developers call for big box retail at CascadeStation
Holiday bazaars abound in Mid-County
Physicians Hospital offers revolutionary health services
122nd Avenue Study tackles car dealership regulations
Cherrywood Village to get contested sky bridge
Leaf depots open

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Firwood Gardens holds senior health fair

Firwood Gardens, a residential care facility at 819 N.E. 122nd Ave., recently held a free senior health fair that was open to the public. Health information was made available, health testing was conducted, vendors explained medical equipment and products were demonstrated. In addition, emergency response, podiatry and in-home care information was disseminated. From left to right, Firwood Gardens resident Mary Lyle receives information from Firwood Gardens Activities Director Becca LeTourneau and Susan Johnson from Payless. For more information about Firwood Gardens, or to take a tour of the facility, call 503-252-0085.

PAC seeks funding for Gateway Transit Center garage

LEE PERLMAN
THE MID-COUNTY MEMO

At last month’s Opportunity Gateway Program Advisory Committee, or PAC, the Portland Development Commission’s Sara King discussed strategies for funding a new parking garage at the Gateway Transit Center. The project has been an identified community priority since 1999, King said, and has been pushed to the fore by a transaction with the Oregon Clinic. The Oregon Clinic, in partnership with the Gerding/Edlen Development Company, plans to build a $24 million headquarters building on the southern end of the Gateway Transit Center parking lot. To compensate for the spaces lost and provide for the new structure, PDC will build a two-story, 610-space parking garage on the north end. The Portland Office of Transportation and the Oregon Clinic will contribute to the structure’s $8 million cost, King said, but right now $6 million would have to come from Gateway urban renewal funds.

“We’re desperately looking for other funding sources so we can use the urban renewal funds for other priorities,” King said. One possible source of money is federal transportation funds through Metro.

In a related matter, King said that Oregon Clinic’s building would be four stories high in its first phase, rather than the three stories originally planned for and in spite of the fact that the space isn’t needed right now. The larger building partially met the concerns of some PAC members that a key location might be under-used.
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