Recently added articles from Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR):
City of Milwaukie joins program to improve its downtown
Jul 07, 2009; ... Clackamas County and the city of Milwaukie are moving forwardwith a project to revitalize downtown Milwaukie. The city recentlybecame involved in the National Trust for Historic Preservation'sMain Street program, which aids local governments in creating moreviable downtowns ....
Beaverton and Tigard agree on Barrows Road Bridge deal
Jul 07, 2009; ... The Beaverton and Tigard city councils have agreed to share thecost of a project to replace the Barrows Road Bridge, locatedbetween Scholls Ferry Road and Walnut Street, in Tigard. Tigard will contribute $69,000 for the $205,000 project, whichwill replace the current bridge with ...
Tualatin City Council awards contract for I-5 landscape improvements
Jul 07, 2009; ... Tualatin City Council has awarded Crown Landscape Inc. a $299,880contract to perform a landscape improvement project at theInterstate-5/Nyberg interchange. The project will be constructed at Interstate 5, exit 289, andwill ...
Oregon studying Westside Express Service possibilities
Jul 07, 2009; ... Getting Oregon's first commuter rail line built wasn't easy.Extending that line would present a whole new series of challenges. As the Westside Express Service struggles to attract riders, astudy is looking at what it would take to stretch the line from thePortland suburbs to ...
Block X Block: 135 N.W. Park Ave. in Portland
Jul 07, 2009; ... The writing on the side of the building at 135 N.W. Park Ave.,though faded, is still readable: Home Furnishers. It serves as areminder of the neighborhood's past, when it was known for lightindustrial manufacturing. Now, it's part of the Pearl District. However, as trendy as ...
Mixed-use project in in the works on Mississippi Ave. in North Portland
Jul 07, 2009; ... Matt Bryant of Protemp Associates Inc. installs a Mitsubishi CITYMULTI heating and cooling system on the second floor of the Numissmixed-use project at 4039 N. Mississippi Ave. in North Portland. The three-story steel and wood structure will have 17,000 squarefeet of retail and ...
Log cabin in Silver Falls State Park being restored
Jul 07, 2009; ... A historic log cabin in Silver Falls State Park east of Salem isin the middle of a restoration to become the home of a Friends ofSilver Falls store. While following state and national rules for maintaining ahistoric structure, workers are sealing the exposed logs, upgradingthe ...
Portable toilet use can be industry barometer
Jul 06, 2009; ... Call it the Honey Bucket Indicator: You can gauge the strength ofthe construction industry by the demand for portable toilets. David Litherland, accounts manager for Honey Bucket, hasn'tstarted selling reports to investors yet, but he has a wealth ofinformation on the local ...
Salem-based Morrow Equipment Company waiting for stimulus projects to move forward
Jul 06, 2009; ... Serving customers across the world can help insulate a company ifone country's economy turns sour. When every market area is down,Rick Morrow of Morrow Equipment Co. said, all you can do is wait. "It's a global recession," Morrow said. Morrow is vice chairman of the Salem-based ...
On the Boards: July 6, 2009
Jul 06, 2009; ... Lane Community College in Eugene will have a new look after itsnew LCC Health and Wellness Center, designed by SRG Partnership, isconnected to the existing campus. Landscape architects at GreenWorksPC are performing a redesign of the college's main entrance toaccomplish this. The ...
Nailed by recession, Portland bar losing carpenters
Jul 06, 2009; ... At the Mousetrap Tavern in north Portland, owner Carol Krumoverhears the carpenters vowing to stick together through the toughtimes. The problem is, Krum said, she isn't hearing as many voices asbefore the economy went as flat as an abandoned quarter-inch of beerat the bottom of ...
As construction firms get leaner, so do their trailers
Jul 06, 2009; ... If project managers have to tuck in their elbows as they flipthrough design drawings, blame the office trailer. Actually, AdoraMaguire said, blame the recession. Companies have gotten leaner, said Maguire, director of marketingand business development for Pacific Mobile Structures, ...
Oregon City dry waste recovery company expands
Jul 06, 2009; ... So far in 2009, Glen Zimmerman has seen his company's profitsdecline by one-third of what they were in the first half of 2008. The owner of Pacific Land Clearing, a dry waste facility inOregon City, Zimmerman blames the result on a slowdown ofconstruction projects. It's a ...
Little activity in Beaverton's development department
Jul 06, 2009; ... Loneliness has crept into the offices of the Beaverton CommunityDevelopment Department. Five years ago, the department's lobby overflowed with builderspleading for speedy processing of their residential-constructionpermits so they could build, make money, then hurry back for ...
Oregon City law firm shifts toward health care
Jul 06, 2009; ... Through 2008, workers' compensation attorney James Guinn wasaveraging three to five claims per week. By March 2009 that numberwas noticeably smaller. "In the last few months I've seen less people come in, justbecause I think there are less people working," Guinn said. Guinn ...
Work shortage worries Portland architects
Jul 03, 2009; ... Portland-area architects say they're still feeling an economicpinch, a sentiment echoed across the country in the AmericanInstitute of Architects' most recent Architectural Billings Indexnumbers. After four months of numbers revealing little increases ofactivity, the index showed ...
Oregon legislative session rouses participants
Jul 03, 2009; ... Kim Thatcher attended the 2009 Oregon legislative session. BobShiprack was there, too. But two witnesses can give two differentaccounts. Shiprack, the general secretary of the Oregon State Building andConstruction Trades Council, saw a good session that created jobsand helped the ...
Commentary: Beware: Sensitive data is a frequent target
Jul 03, 2009; ... Where is your company's sensitive information at this verymoment? You may say that it is in the company's files locked insomeone's office or in a certain directory on the company's server.I hope you're right. But according to a recent survey, informationyou believe is confidential may ...
Benton, Linn counties work to improve to water quality
Jul 02, 2009; ... A project is under way to identify old, unused wells that may behurting water quality in Linn and Benton counties. Abandoned wells,when left open, will take in anything flowing on the ground and leakit into the groundwater supply, thus harming water quality. Waterproject coordinator Adam ...
South Waterfront project in Portland starts at the ground level
Jul 02, 2009; ... A new two-acre park taking up an entire block in Portland's SouthWaterfront District is scheduled to be completed by early fall.Named after an early Portland settler who owned the property in the19th century, Elizabeth Caruthers Park is bounded by SouthwestCurry, Moody, Gaines and Bond ...