Port of Hood River Executive Director Michael McElwee expects Hood River’s Urban Renewal board to give direction on how to proceed with infrastructure needed to prepare the Lot 1 properties on the waterfront for development sometime in the first couple of months of 2019.  In a presentation to the Urban Renewal board last week, McElwee presented a list of necessary infrastructure needs of seven-point-five million dollars, and another four million dollars worth of optional items that would primarily involve recreational improvements.  McElwee notes streets and sewer and water lines are a pre-condition for any kind of development on those parcels.