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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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John Day was awarded a $35,000 grant from Travel Oregon,
which will provide public restrooms on Main Street.
Travel Oregon awards
John Day $35,000
grant for parking
Public restrooms on
Main Street coming
to John Day
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
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Public Restrooms are one
step closer on Main Street in
John Day.
Travel Oregon announced
Feb. 25 John Day was
awarded a $35,000 grant
through the Destination
Ready program for a pit
stop outdoor plaza and
restroom project.
“The award was to
purchase and site new
restrooms at the parking
lot,” City Manager Nick
Green said. “These will be
the only public restrooms
on Main Street and will
be a great place for people
to stop, refresh and hope-
fully walk around and shop
downtown.”
Green said the deci-
sion hasn’t been made yet
on the design of the proj-
ect at Southwest Canton
Street and Highway 26, the
former Wright Chevrolet
lot, and that the grant only
funds the restrooms.
Grant money received
from the Outdoor Rec-
reation Roundtable and
Grant County Chamber of
Commerce will be used to
install signage and kiosks
to notify people they can
park and use the restrooms
there, according to Green.
The rest of the improve-
ments, including the paving,
will come later.
“We are excited to work
with the chamber, the John
Day-Canyon City Parks and
Recreation District, Oregon
RAIN, Grant County Eco-
nomic Development, the
farmer’s market, Eastern
Oregon Visitors Association
and Travel Oregon on this,”
Green said. “It truly is a com-
munity-supported project,
and it’s nice to see the com-
munity working together.”
While the press release
from Travel Oregon high-
lights the community “pit
stop” with food truck stalls,
improved parking and new
public restrooms in John
A future parking lot is planned
along Southwest Canton
Street and West Main Street at
the former Wright Chevrolet
lot in John Day.
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—Nick Green, John Day city
manager
Day, Green said the scope of
this application and funding
are just to place restrooms.
The John Day City Coun-
cil discussed in January two
different designs and oppor-
tunities for the site, but
decided to focus on provid-
ing restrooms, parking and a
multi-purpose area.
“We talked about the
potential to create a multi-
use site that could include
public art displays, hosting
farmer’s market events and
potentially food trucks or
other services in the future,
but the scope of this appli-
cation and funding awarded
from Travel Oregon was just
to place restrooms,” Green
said.
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