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Ecology group Salmon-Safe, which works to aid in salmon spawning in restored watersheds, has designated South Waterfront as Portland's first 'salmon-safe' neighborhood. The emerging neighborhood received the designation for its developers' efforts to protect the nearby Willamette River and its tributaries. South Waterfront developers Gerding Edlen Development and Homer Williams utilized bioswales and other storm-water management techniques during the neighborhood's development to clean up...
By JEFFREY MIZE State senators weren't brimming with enthusiasm Thursday for finding as much as $650 million to pay for the Columbia River Crossing project. "I know that Oregon is struggling with the same issue we are," Senate Transportation Chairwoman Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, said at the end of an hourlong presentation. "We don't have a lot of money. In fact, we have no money." Estimates presented to the Senate Transportation Committee, meeting at the Hilton Vancouver...
By Tara Ballenger, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Aug. 4--When classes resume this fall, students from two Portland high schools can cross monthly transit passes off their back-to-school shopping lists. The pilot program will give all students at Franklin and Jefferson high schools free passes in September. If the program succeeds, it will move to other high schools in the district in January, said TriMet spokeswoman Mary Fetsch. The passes will have no restrictions, so students can...
By Ryan LaFontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Aug. 4--GULFPORT -- Large cranes are busy this week pulling more than 70,000 cubic yards of muck from the floor of the Small Craft Harbor, a necessary step if the city is to realize its dream of a world-class facility. The two-phase, harbor-dredging project should last well into the new year. Meantime, the new Gulfport Development Commission, a five-member panel assembled to solicit proposals from developers to build projects on city...
By Michelle Dynes, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Aug. 3--CHEYENNE -- City planning that reduces sprawl also reduces the environmental impacts of development. Smart--growth principles not only create attractive, walkable neighborhoods, but also minimize pollution and preserve natural lands. Dispersed planning encourages residents to drive instead of walk. Fewer roads decrease infrastructure costs. "We don't have the luxury to do sprawl development like we did in past decades," said Matt Ashby,...
Calls for new livable, "walkable" communities and work force housing Elise Swanson, (310) 241-0699 Bisno Development Company LLC announced today that it has launched five blogs to provide the public with easy access to information on how Bisno projects support the rapidly growing "Smart Growth" movement. A sixth blog will provide information on the Company's proposed Ponte Vista project in San Pedro, CA, which will provide the area with much needed work force housing while devoting 40%...
By Brandy Rissmiller, Republican & Herald, Pottsville, Pa. Jul. 6--SCHUYLKILL HAVEN -- For the 14th year, Schuylkill Haven has been named a Tree City USA community by the Arbor Day Foundation. The borough received the award to honor its commitment to community forestry and on Wednesday at a borough council meeting, Frank P. Snyder, service forester for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Cressona, presented the award with "great honor.""In order to qualify...
By Jonathan Brinckman, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Jun. 28--The genesis of the airline revving up for its inaugural flight Monday was a 2005 conversation on the wharf in front of Centennial Mill on the Portland waterfront. With the Willamette River at their feet, John Beardsley, who owned the Northwest Portland mill, and Kent Craford, a lobbyist, bounced the idea of launching a commercial floatplane business. Such planes could make the Portland-to-Seattle trip quicker and more...
Yost Grube Hall Architecture has promoted Meredith Curran and Jonathan Bolch to its ownership group and has awarded additional corporate shares to Gordon Gillan, Miles Woofter and Mark Stoller. Curran is an interior designer and project manager with 12 years of experience. She has been with YGH since 2002 and has worked on offices for Bullivant Houser Bailey, Schnitzer Steel Industries and Smith Freed & Eberhard. She is currently working on Ater Wynne's new law offices in the Pearl District...
By Ryan Frank, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Mar. 29--So how much would you pay to live near Portland's new aerial tram? Three of the tram's neighbors opened their mail this month to find a bill from the city of Portland for the new silver people-mover and said: Not that much. The Oregon Department of Transportation, an industrial engineer and a 31-year-old townhouse buyer objected to the fees the city wants to charge those who own property next to the $57 million tram....
