Wednesday, November 18, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
GROWTH: Sisters
remains an attractive
destination
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& Hotel on East Cascade
Avenue is slated to open in
late spring-early summer.
The City is currently having
a fourth well drilled in the
Creekside Campground to
add to the local water supply.
Construction just began at 210
E. Sun Ranch Dr. on a 6,912
sq. ft. warehouse building for
local builder Curt Kallberg.
Any number of establish-
ments in the downtown com-
mercial area have new own-
ers and/or new names. The
Gallery Restaurant and Bar is
now owned by Timbers Bar
and Grille that also has Bend
and Redmond locations. The
former Sisters Depot Deli
is now owned by Debra
Yannariello and Eryn Ross
of 503 Uncorked restaurant
and wine bar in Sherwood,
and is slated to open soon.
SoulShine & Co. on West
Hood Avenue has changed
its name to Marigold & True
with the same owner and mer-
chandise. On the lawn east of
Marigold & True is a vegan
food cart called Nourish.
What was Shulers9
Pizzeria located between
East Cascade and East Hood
avenues, next to Dutch Bros.
Coffee, has a new black and
white paint job and will soon
be opening as Cibelli9s Pizza,
which has other locations
in Central Oregon. Another
white building with black
trim is the newly opened
Sisters Historical Museum
on the corner of North Larch
Street and East Cascade
Avenue. The former home
of George Wakefield, the
museum showcases the early
history of Sisters, with rotat-
ing displays, and offers walk-
ing history tours in the warm
weather months.
What aren9t currently vis-
ible are the land-use applica-
tions either recently approved
or under review by the City.
Laird SuperFood has received
approval of its site plan for a
26,412 sq. ft. warehouse on
the corner of North Pine Street
and Lundgren Mill Drive.
Sisters Cottage Inn, 215 N.
Locust St. (behind City Hall)
received approval of its site
plan for a <hotel= with seven
rooms in detached small
cottages including ancillary
functions (lobby, laundry,
manager9s quarters).
The lot at 352 E. Hood
Ave. (across from Ace
Hardware) has been approved
for division into two parcels.
The Barn, to be located at
171 E. Main Ave., has an
approved site plan for an eat-
ing/drinking establishment
with a new 1,760 sq. ft. struc-
ture enclosing the bar and
commissary kitchen. There
will be an outdoor seating
area, firepit, stage, and four
mobile food units, including
Boone Dog Pizza.
Following an approved
rezone, Jeriko Development
has submitted for review a
Master Plan and Subdivision
to create a 14-lot industrial
park at 800 W. Barclay (the
former northern section of
the Forest Service prop-
erty). Modification to the
Habitat for Humanity Village
Meadows Master Plan is also
under review to replat four
residential lots to 10 residen-
tial lots.
As of last Monday,
November 16, the approval
was final for a request
to rezone the center por-
tion of the Forest Service
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PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
Sisters has seen a significant increase in residential and commercial
growth, with a population growth rate in the city limits of 4.5 percent.
property from Open Space,
Public Facilities, and Urban
Area Reserve to Downtown
Commercial, Multi-family
Residential, North Sisters
Business Park, and Open
Space to accommodate future
residential, commercial, and
mixed uses.
A site plan review and
partition decision were
issued and became final
on November 2 for the
ThreeWind apartment devel-
opment behind Bi-Mart. They
still need to complete a final
plat application and submit
their building permits before
construction can begin. The
commercial component is
forthcoming and will need to
go through land-use review.
In partnership with the
Oregon Department of
Transportation (ODOT),
planning and land acquisi-
tion is underway for the city9s
second roundabout planned
for the intersection of East
Highway 20 and Locust
Street, a long-standing traf-
fic bottleneck and safety
concern.
The City and ODOT have
also begun early negotiations
with the Forest Service for
possible acquisition of the
East Portal property (at the
beginning of Scenic Highway
242) to create a future
transportation hub or other
amenity.
Home Sales Within Sisters City Limits – January-October
# New Listings
# Sold
Sold volume
Avg. Sales Price
Median Sales Price
2019
277
193
$98,469,692
$510,206
$445,000
2020
310
266
146,819,454
551,953
448,800
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Home Sales Within All of Sisters Country — January-October
2019
416
285 $152,345,942 $534,547 $449,000
2020
422
386
226,753,430
587,444
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Growth by the numbers
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Those who lived here in
1950 were one of 723 Sisters
residents. By 1960, that
number was down to 602, a
decrease of 16.7 percent.
Following the end of
the logging business in and
around Sisters, the population
hit bottom at 516 in 1970.
Black Butte Ranch was being
developed just about then and
the developers helped Sisters
businesses spruce up their
stores, embracing the 1880s
Western theme, to service
ranch visitors.
Over the next decade, the
population grew by 34.9 per-
cent to 696. Things slowed a
little during the 80s, dropping
the population by 2.4 percent
to 679 in 1990. The end of the
90s decade saw Sisters install
its municipal sewer system
following a vote by the resi-
dents and growth became the
byword.
The 2000 census showed
a population increase of 41.2
percent for 959 residents.
At that time, there were 397
households and 262 families.
The first 10 years of the new
century saw Sisters popula-
tion mushroom to 2,038 or
a 112.5 percent increase.
The number of households
in 2010 was 847 with 557
families.
Between 2010 and 2014,
the population grew at an
annual average of 2.21 per-
cent. At that rate, predictions
were made that by 2020,
the population would reach
2,535. That number is already
in the rearview mirror with
the estimated census for 2020
being 3,003, with an average
annual growth rate of 4.45
percent.
It was recently announced
that Deschutes County is sec-
ond in the nation for people
who used to visit and now
live here. The Lake Tahoe
area was number one and the
Jersey Shore number three.
As of November 2019,
Portland State University
reported that Sisters had the
fastest growth of any city in
Deschutes County, a jump of
9.5 percent over the space of
a year.
The figures from the
Central Oregon Association
of Realtors for the first 10
months of both 2019 and
2020 bear out this population
growth with an increase in
prices.
Sisters is growing fast and
it does not appear that it will
slow down soon.
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