Elon Glucklich
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Eugene, OR, United States
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Ninkasi Brewing Co. fires up brewing system for expansion
Ninkasi Brewing Co. unveiled the first piece of its ongoing expansion this week.The Eugene craft brewer brought a new brewing system online for its → Read More
Report details clean energy employment in Lane County
A new report highlights the economic impact of renewable energy on Lane County and across Oregon.The Clean Jobs Oregon reports details more than 55,000 → Read More
Keeping IT Talent Local Is a Priority for Eugene, Ore.
The region has been trying to grow its technology firm footprint, but doing that means university graduates versed in computer sciences need to stick around. → Read More
What to do if Wildfire Threatens? Keep Calm and Carry Your Cellphone
In an emergency, Eugene, Ore., officials can tap into area cell towers to send evacuation and other safety information to cellphones in a certain area. → Read More
Artists will take to the storm drains at next weekend’s Springfield Art & Chalk Fest
SPRINGFIELD — Local artists will add some creative flair to storm drains on downtown streets next weekend. The city has selected five artists to paint murals up to 4-feet-by-6-feet in size around five storm drains, part of the Springfield Art & Chalk Fest event on Saturday. Artists of all ages and abilities will create chalk art on downtown sidewalks and parking lots during the chalk fest. → Read More
Oregon land use court tells Coburg to redo urban growth boundary plan
COBURG — City leaders are back to Square One in their efforts to expand Coburg’s urban growth boundary, after a conservation group appealed their plan and the state’s land use appeals board sent the plan back to city for more work. The City Council in July 2015 approved a plan to bring 149 acres of land outside the city’s south, north and northwest boundaries into the urban growth boundary, for… → Read More
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says she favors $3 billion state corporate tax hike
After months of standing on the sidelines, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has jumped into the debate over Measure 97, voicing her support for the corporate tax hike that would raise an estimated $3 billion per year. Brown told supporters in an email Thursday that she favored the union-backed measure, also known as Initiative Petition 28, marking her first public comments on the proposal that has pitted… → Read More
Residential and commercial development planned on 28 acres in west Eugene
A Bend-area builder plans to develop a new west Eugene subdivision with 104 single-family houses, apartments, commercial buildings and a public park, in an area where the city has tried to spur development for more than a decade. Hayden Homes wants to build on a 28.4-acre parcel near the edge of Eugene’s city limits, just north of Royal Avenue and east of Green Hill Road. The undeveloped land is… → Read More
Eugene planners seek local historic designation for Pre’s Rock
Nineteen years ago, members of Steve Prefontaine’s family and Eugene’s Oregon Track Club gathered on Skyline Boule-vard to unveil the monument known as Pre’s Rock. Now, the city — which owns Pre’s Rock — wants to ensure the memorial to the University of Oregon track and field legend lives on. City planning officials have applied to designate Pre’s Rock as a historic city landmark. → Read More
Eugene’s Hub on Campus apartment tower lands its first retail tenant
Nearly a year after the 12-story Hub on Campus student apartment tower opened on East Broadway in Eugene, the building has now secured its first commercial tenant. Eugene iRepairs, an Apple product repair business, will take up one of the apartment building’s two ground-floor retail spaces, according to a building permit application filed with the city this month. The business, run by Eugene… → Read More
Eugene’s Broadway Place apartment and retail development sells for $30 million
California investors have purchased the Broadway Place apartment and retail complex in downtown Eugene for $30 million, in one of the most expensive local real estate transactions in recent years. Virtu Investments bought the mixed-use development from Scottsdale, Ariz.-based The Wolff Co., according to a deed filed with Lane County. Broadway Place, opened in 1999, consists of two buildings on… → Read More
Lane County unemployment rate rises sharply in June, but data may signal stronger job market
Lane County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment shot up to 5.5 percent in June, from 4.8 percent in May, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday. But the June increase came as schools laid off staff like bus drivers, cafeteria workers and janitors for the summer, and more high school students appeared to enter the summer job market than in years past, pushing up the jobless rate. “It… → Read More
Lane County housing market hits uncharted territory as low supply pushes prices to all-time highs
After searching the super-spendy Seattle and Portland markets for a home in which to raise their two children, East Coast transplants Tessa and Orion Matthews this month settled instead on a house in the south Eugene hills, after Orion sold his interest in several software development companies in New York and Washington, D.C. Around the same time, University of Oregon employee Rebecca Flynn’s… → Read More
Florence senior living community sells for $1.5 million
A Eugene senior housing developer has purchased a large retirement community in Florence. Compass Senior Living bought the 71-unit Shorewood Retirement Residences at 1451 Spruce St., according to a deed filed with Lane County earlier this month. The purchase price was $1.5 million Compass will operate the independent living community, it said Friday. → Read More
Main Street redesign through Springfield won’t include controversial plan to widen street by more than 30 feet
SPRINGFIELD — By early next year, city leaders and Lane Transit District officials hope to finalize a plan to redesign Main Street through Springfield, possibly adding roundabouts and center medians while extending EmX rapid transit service from its current endpoint at the downtown Springfield Station east to Bob Straub Parkway. But one proposal that stirred fear among business owners fronting… → Read More
Springfield City Council places 3-cents-per-gallon fuel tax hike on November ballot
SPRINGFIELD — Voters this fall will decide the fate of a ballot measure doubling the city’s motor vehicle fuel tax to fund street repairs across Springfield. The City Council voted 6-0 Monday night to place a 3-cents-per-gallon fuel tax increase on Springfield voters’ Nov. 8 election ballots. → Read More
An hour of songs and snacks at Eugene’s Teddy Bear Picnic
Clutching his stuffed tiger, Daniel, six-month-old Hugo Barberis bounced up and down on his mom’s lap as the two listened to live music at Skinner Butte Park on Saturday morning. Daniel wasn’t exactly a teddy bear, but he and Hugo passed the test and made it into the Eugene Public Library’s 21st annual Teddy Bear Picnic, part of the library’s effort to keep kids reading and using their… → Read More
Hay fire north of Junction City wipes out Bounds Hay Co. crop, causing millions in damage
JUNCTION CITY — A $1.5 million harvest, gone in minutes. Standing in the parking lot of Bounds Hay Co. Saturday afternoon, Jesse Bounds glanced at the fire that erupted there Friday, and continued to rip through a pair of barns holding 15,000 tons of charred and incinerated hay. → Read More
Springfield to vote on placing 3-cents-per-gallon fuel tax on November ballot
SPRINGFIELD – City leaders could ask voters to pitch in for road repairs by doubling the city’s motor vehicle fuel tax. The City Council is set to vote Monday on a 3-cents-per-gallon fuel tax increase that would go on Springfield voters’ Nov. 8 election ballots. → Read More
Rest-Haven Memorial Park owner proposing 172 units of low-income housing on part of south Eugene cemetery
The owner of Rest-Haven Memorial Park in south Eugene has dusted cobwebs off his 13-year-old plan for building a large rent-controlled housing project on the property. Charles “Tim” Wiper is seeking city approval for a 172-unit residential development on the southern portion of the 75-acre Rest-Haven cemetery, at Willamette Street and 39th Avenue. The project details are nearly identical to the… → Read More