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Listen: Bend Don’t Break – Bend Central District Challenges & Opportunities with Chris Starling 🎧

A chat with a board member for the new Bend Central District Business Association
by The Source Staff

The Bend Central District is an area of opportunity for Bend to expand  and revitalize an urban core just outside the downtown area. But with its urban aspirations come urban issues, including growing numbers of people experiencing homelessness, increasing costs of development and more. In this Bend Don’t Break podcast, Chris Starling of the relatively […]

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Midtown Rising ▶ [With Video]

With Bend’s “Zoom Town” status and its ongoing population boom, its scene needed room to grow. Enter Midtown, rising slowly but surely—and with a vision
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

Some call it The Moat. Others, The Tracks. Others have less-flattering names for the act of moving from west Bend to east, doing so via only the handful of arterials that cross the city, over or under its railroad bridges, and under the Bend Parkway. Whatever you call it, the reasons to cross that moat […]

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Environmental Watchdog: Central Oregon LandWatch Executive Director Ben Gordon 🎧 [with podcast]

Gordon will lead the organization’s efforts to enforce Oregon’s land use laws and protect local rivers, farm lands and forests
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Ben Gordon, the head of Central Oregon LandWatch, a local environmental nonprofit. COLW has been working behind the scenes for decades to mitigate the effects of urban development and wasteful water use. Gordon started as the new executive director of Central Oregon LandWatch on June […]

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BCD zoning changes were needed. But affordable housing should still be the priority

The Bend Central District, has long been heralded as the area holding the most promise for redevelopment, and for adding more housing and commercial space close to the center of town
The Source Staff

The area just east of Bend’s downtown, dubbed the Bend Central District, has long been heralded as the area holding the most promise for redevelopment, and for adding more housing and commercial space close to the center of town. But in the few years since the City of Bend adopted special development standards for that […]

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It’s Time to Tip the Scales for the Bend Central District

The potential of re-developing an area close to downtown Bend
The Source Staff

For the past several years, we have followed the advent of the Bend Central District with interest and enthusiasm. The potential of re-developing an area close to downtown Bend to make it an attractive, walkable place for people to live and work is something we can get behind. Bend is growing and rents in the […]

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Bend's Core Area Inspires Ideas

Of those who filled out the City’s online questionnaire, most ID transportation as the biggest issue
Chris Miller

Interest in developing Bend’s Core Area into an attractive area for living, doing business and traversing the city is increasing, according to reports from the City of Bend. The Core Area Project includes four areas included in Bend’s 2016 Urban Growth Boundary expansion: the Bend Central District, Hwy 20/Greenwood and KorPine—as well as the Greater […]

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BCD Developments

Les Schwab on the move? Sunlight Solar planning a new building
Chris Miller

Building is booming across Bend, and a couple of big projects are in the works for the Bend Central District—tagged by the City of Bend as a place for urban renewal. Sunlight Solar Sunlight Solar, which currently occupies a small warehouse and office building behind Sparrow Bakery on Southeast Scott Street, is in the 120-day […]

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City to consider expanding mural code

Mural code expansion means Franklin Underpass project could get started soon
Teafly Peterson

The majority of public art projects in Bend are private—located on private land and privately funded. We are immensely lucky to have an array of patrons in our city who have paid for the installations of sculptures in roundabouts or paid for murals on their privately owned buildings, like in the Old Mill. As of […]

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Waiting on Urban Renewal

Brooks Resources looks to lease the Murray & Holt property
Chris Miller

In May, Brooks Resources purchased the Murray & Holt property at 181 NE Franklin Ave., located in the Bend Central District—an area the City of Bend has identified as a potential new urban renewal area to create infill and redevelopment opportunities. The Bend urban renewal agency, BURA, began work on that new urban renewal area […]

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