The effort to extend paved roads, water lines, sewer pipes and upgraded electrical power to the South Hermiston Industrial Park could provide Hermiston with the best of both worlds.
Cities are constantly looking to bring more businesses and jobs to their community, and the industrial park will provide space for smaller, but important, business to grow while still leaving larger plots of land available for bigger tenants. We wanted to make sure we were planning ahead of time to accommodate those smaller scale industrial users, Hermiston Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan said. Allowing some of these smaller industrial developments to take root allows us not to be so beholden to the large-scale operators.
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HERMISTON â The Hermiston City Council will hear a proposal during its Monday, May 10, meeting to help get local restaurants back on their feet.
Instead of a straightforward grant, the program would use gift certificates paid for by the city. The idea is to not only provide cash directly from the city, but also to provide people incentive to return to eating at restaurants, likely bringing more paying customers with them when they do.
According to the proposal by Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan, the city already did something similar with Hermiston Cinemas and Desert Lanes Family Fun Center last year. The city had partnered with Umatilla County to offer cash grants to small businesses affected by the pandemic, and when fewer than expected applied, they used some of the extra money to purchase large quantities of gift certificates from the movie theater and bowling alley.
HERMISTON â An idea to turn an undeveloped piece of city property into a senior living project in Hermiston has hit a significant bump after the developer the city had planned to partner with backed out.
City Manager Byron Smith said during the Hermiston City Councilâs Monday, April 26, council meeting that Paradigm Compass LLC had decided not to build a $4 million combination assisted living, memory care and independent living complex after all.
The city purchased a 20-acre parcel next to the Recycled Water Treatment Plant, known as the Green Property, in 2005 for $420,000, but plans to use it for recycled water cooling did not pan out. In late 2020, Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan proposed giving a 7-acre piece of the property to a developer for free if they would build housing for seniors on it, which would provide what the city felt was a needed service, and generate revenue over time through property taxes and utilities. The city put out a request for proposals an