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Source Weekly Update Podcast 10/17/19

Redmond Issue: A new production company for the Hub City, fundraising for a warming shelter and Urban Renewal in Redmond’s downtown
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

In this week’s podcast, a focus on Redmond: How Urban Renewal funds are shaping Redmond’s downtown, a look at an effort to keep Redmond’s warming shelter open every day all winter, and a profile of a new production company aiming to bring more live music to the Hub City.

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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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Revitalization in Bend? One step closer

The sale of the old Murray & Holt car lot could be the first infill project in the BCD
Chris Miller

Revitalization in the Bend Central District could be coming soon. On May 7, Brooks Resources finalized the purchase of the Murray & Holt property on Franklin Avenue next to the Sherwin-Williams paint store, the company said in a press release. The 1.76-acre property was most recently used as an auto lot, but falls in the […]

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Urban Renewal on the Table

Bend’s City Council votes to move forward on fostering development in the Central District
Chris Miller

Bend’s Central District has historically been a maze of streets that dead end—either at the railroad tracks, or at Greenwood Avenue—but with the City Council’s April 18 decision to support a new Urban Renewal District for the BCD, KorPine, east downtown and inner Highway 20, there’s the potential to better connect downtown and the neighborhoods […]

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Field of Dreams

Conflicting views of Bend’s future go head-to-head on Troy Field
Avatar photo Erin Rook

As a young girl, Sue Fountain spent many a winter’s day ice skating on Troy Field, across the street from what was then Bend High School. When the weather sunk below freezing, firefighters would fill the field with water to build a skating rink layer by layer, she recalls in her memoir “Too Cold to […]

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