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Groundbreaking Nears for $1B South Waterfront Development

PORTLAND-The 31-acre master-planned project will transform underutilized industrial land into a dense neighborhood of view-rich condominium, apartment and office towers.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on October 05, 2003

PORTLAND-A $1.3-billion mixed-use redevelopment of industrial waterfront south of Downtown will officially get started next week when public officials and private developers gather to fete the ambitious 31-acre project that will be built out over the next 17 years per an agreement with the city’s urban renewal agency, the Portland Development Commission.

The land is known as the Central District of a larger, 130-acre area called the South Waterfront area, which in turn is part of the 409-acre North Macadam Urban Renewal Area. Specifically, the Central District is located between the Ross Island Bridge and Bancroft Street. Preliminary plans call for the Central District to hold 2,700 condominium and apartment units in towers rising between 250 ft and 350 ft, which would make it the tallest, most dense neighborhood in the state.

The area also will include a satellite campus for Oregon Health Sciences University, which is landlocked atop the hill that rises immediately west of the South Waterfront area. The satellite campus will be connected to the existing campus by an aerial tram and the district as a whole will be connected to Downtown by an extension of the city’s new streetcar line.

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