Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Recharge your business and make life easier for your employees. Move your company to the Central Eastside Industrial District (CEID). Besides having easy access to downtown and surrounding areas, the CEID offers a variety of unique spaces and buildings to accommodate any of your business space requirements.

More Convenient – More Affordable
With the variety of industry clusters located here, more companies are moving to the district because it makes doing business much more convenient and affordable. Industries like graphic design/advertising, industrial, architecture, film and sound, distilleries, home improvement, produce, artists, retail, and web-based companies are finding that their customers, clients and vendors are all in the area, allowing them to move faster, partner with other businesses and generate new business opportunities.

If you’re ready to save company expenses, are looking to revitalize your business or are just in need of some new space, check out the Central Eastside. It’s more than you may realize, and better than you can imagine. To find out what over 1,300 businesses and more than 17,000 employees already know about the district, send an email to terry@ceic.cc.

Some CEID businesses are soon going to be looking for new locations. Not because the want to, but because the Milwaukie Light Rail project will displace them.

On June 26 the project Steering Committee unanimously recommended a Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA). The LPA defines the route the light rail would follow should the project move
forward. Steering Committee members include elected officials from Metro, the cities of Portland, Milwaukie and Oregon City, Clackamas County and appointed officials from TriMet and the Oregon Department of Transportation.

The Steering Committee recommended the line terminate in Oak Grove in north Clackamas County, that it follow the Tillamook Branch railroad alignment through the industrial area of north Milwaukie and that it cross the Willamette River in a way that connects Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to South Waterfront. Their recommendation was informed by technical findings, public comment and input from the Citizen Advisory Committee and the Willamette River Crossing Partnership.

Metro unanimously approved last week the locally preferred alternative for the Portland-Milwaukie light-rail project. The 7.4 mile light rail line would provide additional transportation options for fast-growing communities with high traffic congestion in north Clackamas County and Southeast Portland. Construction could begin in 2011 and you could board the new MAX line in 2015.

For more information on the project, the businesses it will impact, and some projected pictures of what the new light rail may look like, visit the project website

Several Multnomah County roads and one bridge will be closed for firework displays and community events on the Fourth of July.

The Hawthorne Bridge will be closed to road and sidewalk traffic from approximately 9:30 pm until after a fireworks display is completed to ensure the public’s safety. Fireworks will be launched from two barges near the bridge.

NE Marine Drive will be closed from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm between NE 185th Ave. in the City of Portland to NE 223rd Ave. in the City of Fairview for a fireworks display at Blue Lake Park. Travelers should use alternate routes such as Sandy Blvd. or Interstate 84. Access will be maintained at all times for local residents and emergency vehicles. (NE Marine Drive is maintained by the City of Portland west of NE Interlachen Lane and by Multnomah County to the east of Interlachen.)

In Corbett several roads will be closed from approximately 6:00 am until noon for the Fourth of July Fun Festival Parade. The closure will take place on the Historic Columbia River Highway between SE Woodard Road and 366th, on SE Neilson Road and SE Woodard Road between NE Mershon Road and the Historic Columbia River Highway. Mershon will be the detour route.

On Sauvie Island, several roads will be impacted by the Foot Traffic Marathon Run and Half Marathon Run & Walk from 6:45 am until noon. Event participants will follow a loop course in one direction and motor vehicles will travel the loop in the opposite direction. The course includes NW Gillihan Road, NW Sauvie Island Road, NW Reeder Road and NW Oak Island Road. It begins and ends at the Pumpkin Patch on NW Gillihan Road.