While the Hood River City Planning Commission holds a hearing tonight to consider a zone change for a portion of the current Expo Center property from conditional commercial to light industrial to accommodate a Turtle Island Foods warehouse adjacent to their new manufacturing facility, there has been a pause in the process to develop office and commercial space elsewhere on the property. Port Commissioner Rich McBride says after some downtown business owners expressed concern about the market being flooded with more retail space if it is developed on the Waterfront, but he thinks they are on the verge of resolving some of those issues by refining what is defined as commercial. McBride says the Port doesn’t want to see a large amount of retail in the Waterfront area, but with nearly 500 employees there now and a possible 1,200 at build out, there will be a demand for some services.