Port of The Dalles Executive Director Andrea Klaas says they are getting inquiries from local businesses about possible locations to expand. Klaas says the requests cut across various business sectors, adding low interest rates could be helping drive them. Klaas adds other Ports have told her they are finding the cost of construction to be fairly low at this time. She says most of the businesses she is talking to are looking for a one to one-and-a-half acre sites, which The Dalles can accommodate.