The city of Beaverton, Oregon is charging ahead with a plan that will greatly urbanize and rejuvenate the area near The Round (a transit-oriented development area near light rail).
On Tuesday night, the City Council took several key steps by agreeing to:
- Negotiate on a relatively fast track with a hotel development team that would bring a five- to six-story Cambria Suites to a third of the former Westgate Theater site
- Continue negotiating with Rembold Properties to bring hundreds of units of mid-rise housing to the rest of the Westgate acreage
- As the Urban Renewal Agency, pay $504,000 (a discounted price) for land to build a city-owned parking garage across Southwest Rose Biggi Avenue from Westgate, next to the existing Crescent Building
Multi-story housing and a parking garage had been anchors of the plan to redevelop the triangular lot that has long stood vacant, waiting for a willing private partnership and an economic rebound to reach an area the city calls the Creekside District.
“Things are really happening here and happening at a pace that things haven’t happened in a long time,” Council member Marc San Soucie said.