Port of HR Approves Amended DDA That Would Bring Down Expo Center

On a 3-1 vote, Port of Hood River Commissioners have approved an amended disposition and development agreement with Key Development that would see the former Expo Center building demolished and the space used for parking between a new facility for Turtle Island Foods and two commercial buildings.  Port Executive Director Michael McElwee says the Commission put a pair of conditions on the DDA, one of which calls for Key to provide a strategy for leasing of the commercial buildings prior to closing.  The other condition would not allow housing in the commercial buildings without Port approval.  For the new Turtle Island Foods building to occur the City of Hood River must approve an application to change the zoning of the Expo Center and parking lot from Commercial to Light Industrial, while for the commercial buildings to be constructed a condition in that particular commercial zone for an expo or visitors center to exist must be removed by the City.  Those requests will probably be addressed in September or October.

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