Hood River’s Waterfront has been a busy place the last few years with the construction of a number of new buildings, and it’s about to get even busier.  Port of Hood River Executive Director Michael McElwee says projects for a path along the Nichols Basin West Edge, the launch at the Hook, and the Pedestrian Bridge Trail are all out to bid or about to start.  He says combine that with other projects like the move of Sheppard’s to the Waterfront, the removal of the Expo Center building and construction of a facility for Turtle Island Foods at that site, and the Natio hotel and office building at the end of the Nicols Basin, it will be a busy spring and summer with perhaps the most construction since fill created the Waterfront.  And the Port also has planning for how to develop Lot 1 adjacent to the Nichols Basin on its to-do list.