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 […]
Kirk Schueler
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Laying Bend’s Foundation
Kirk Schueler looks to the future of Brooks Resources
A century ago, Brooks-Scanlon announced it would set up its sawmill along the Deschutes River. It entered the scene as Bend was in the midst of a population boom—jumping from 536 to 5,415 between 1910 and 1920—and a shift from frontier land to timber country. Since then, the company has played a pivotal role in […]