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GreenWorks draws national award for cleanup work
Portland-based GreenWorks recently received national recognition for its contribution to the cleanup and redevelopment of a 33-acre brownfield in the South Waterfront District.
Northwest firm’s cleanup work receives national recognition
Vancouver, Wash.-based environmental engineering and planning firm Maul Foster & Alongi has received national recognition for its part in the cleanup and redevelopment of a 32-acre brownfield in Portland鈥檚 South Waterfront District.
Opportunities in brownfields
Industry professionals are seeing an increase in private efforts to clean up and develop contaminated sites.
Innovation, urban development set to collide
On May 31, Intel's Innovation Lab and the Zidell Companies will team up to host in Portland the second National Day of Civic Hacking, which aims to bring people together to solve community problems.
Zidell unveils plans for first waterfront development
Zidell Realty is planning to add a seven-story, 118-unit mixed-use apartment building on Southwest Moody Avenue. The $20 million project is the maritime company's first on its 33-acre waterfront property.
Zidell acquires more land in South Waterfront
ZRZ Realty, the real estate arm of the Zidell Companies, has acquired a 43,000-square-foot building on the South Waterfront.
Zidell site team celebrates substantial completion of work
A barge-building company鈥檚 30-acre site along the Willamette River, slightly north of the South Waterfront District, is finally being cleaned up. After years of studies and discussions, crews are continuing to remove contaminants and cap others along a 3,000-linear-foot stretch of riverbank.
In-water work for Portland-Milwaukie light-rail bridge to begin Friday
This summer, construction crews on the Portland-Milwaukie light-rail bridge project need to build four in-water structures. Meanwhile, crews working to clean up the Zidell site need to remove and 鈥渃ap鈥� contaminants along 3,000 feet of shoreline. Both teams have four months to do this work 鈥� and they鈥檒l be working in basically the same place.
Contaminated soil cleared from Zidell site
Zidell Marine Corp., the Portland barge maker that owns a 30-acre site along the city's southwest waterfront, has completed the first phase of a $20 million cleanup on the site. The company now has plans to clean up the shores and river-bottom on the site during next summer's in-water work window.
Zidell plans waterfront development
Zidell, the Portland maritime firm, says it wants to turn its industrial property along the Willamette River into a “spectacular mixed-use” development, though most of the land must undergo a […]
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