Public-Private Road and Retail Project Slows for Money Matters

GRESHAM, OR-City and county officials and Albertson’s are at a turning point in their joint effort to transform a deadly triangle of roads into a rectangle of roads circumventing a new grocery store development.

US 26, Southeast Orient Drive and Palmquist Road form a stretch of streets said to have more severe accidents per mile traveled than any other area in Multnomah County. The plan is to remove some buildings, shorten one road and extend another to create a rectangle of roads around a new Albertson’s grocery store development. The city and the county are paying a total of $4.3 million for the project, or about half the cost. Albertson’s is footing the bill for the rest, including buying the land for the new street.