P age 11 T he P ortland O bserver • D ecember 22, 1993 New Industrial Facility For Port Of Portland Project Network Kwanzaa Festivities Continued from front I ▲ Tom Mildner (front), Cintas Corporation's Portland Operations General Manager, breaks ground for their ¿¿-million, 49,000 sq. ft., processing facility. Helping to get the effort underway are (L to R) David Welsh, CIDA, Inc., Architect; Terrance L. Edgar, President, McCormack Pacific; Scott D. Farmer, Corporate VP and Ross Vanderhye, Cintas Corporate Engineer Cintas C orporation’s Portland O perations new $5-m illion dollar, 49,000 sq. ft., uniform rental, sales and industrial laundering facility con struction got underway with a ground breaking cerem ony at the site located in the Port of Portland’s Ri vergate Industrial complex. The ceremony was attended by representatives from the Port, Portland Development Com m ission, P D C ’s en terp rise Zone, Cintas corporate staff, Ri vergate com plex neighbors, CIDA Architects- Enginccrs, M cCormack Pacific En gineers, C ontractors, Construction Managers, Scott D. Farmer, C orpo rate Vice President, Ross Vanderhye, C o r p o r a te E n g in e e r an d T om Mildner, Portland O perations G en eral Manager whocoordinatcd the event. Thanking Portland’s PDC and Port leaders and staff for helping launch the new est and second largest processine facility built bv Cintas Corp., Scott Farm er, son of Corpora- tion Chairm an Dick Farm er, stated what a pleasure it is to work with and to receive so much help from the dedicated group o f economic devel opm ent staffs at the Port, Portland developm ent Com m ission, Oregon Economic Development Department, CIDA, M cCormack Pacific and many others who had a part in helping to develop their new plant facility in Portland. Portland should be proud of these people and in this experience, he had found few com m unities where they received this kind of service and support, every step o f the way, to develop their plants and facilities which number some 100 processing plants and branches nationwide. he went on to say that Portland’s gain would be Seattle’s loss because the new facility would, when com pleted, process more than 200,000 pounds of industrial laundry each T week, about half o f that coming from their Seattle laundering facility. The new plant will also process uniforms, towels and dust control products from a new branch operation to be located in Eugene next year. The Rivergate plant is scheduled to be completed n e x t J u ly , a c c o rd in g to R o ss V anderhye, Corporate Engineer, and it will include some o f the most inno vative labor and cost saving, environ m ental friendly equipm ent and sys tems available in the industrial laun dering industry today. 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