August 9, 2019
T he C olumbia P ress
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Business and development tidbits
Cte Building on traCk
The new Career and Tech-
nical Education building at
Warrenton High School re-
mains on track to open in the
upcoming school year.
Steel girders for the roof
were set this week and walls
and the exterior protection
will be finished in the next
few weeks.
“The goal is to get kids in
classes in there sometime
in September,” said Mark
Baldwin of Mark Baldwin
Construction. Principal Rod
Heyen “is like a kid in a candy
store. He’s here every day.”
a partments on s kipanon
Grading and foundation
work are well under way on
a 37-unit apartment complex
north of Trina & Ron’s Place.
Project plans for Skipanon
River Apartments were sub-
mitted by Antoine Simmons
and approved by the Plan-
ning Commission in 2017.
But the property sold in Sep-
tember 2018 to ILB, a limited
liability company managed
by Lisa Lund of Portland.
Randy Stemper is gener-
al contractor for the proj-
ect, identical in design to
the original, which called for
two-bedroom one-bath units,
each about 950 square feet.
Left: Principal
Rod Heyen stands
Tuesday in front
of the CTE build-
ing going up at
Warrenton High
School.
Photo by Jim Rankin
Right: A construc-
tion crew member
works on the roof
of the new Fibre
Federal branch.
Cindy Yingst
The Columbia Press
There will be three 12-plexes
plus a manager’s apartment,
all in a courtyard setting.
The project is on Skipanon
Drive at Northeast First
Street.
n eW Credit union BranCh
Framing has been complet-
ed at Fibre Federal Credit
Union’s new branch next to
Walmart.
The
3,250-square-foot
building is directly across En-
sign Lane from Wauna Feder-
al Credit Union in the North
Coast Shopping Center.
“It’s the first cross-laminat-
ed timber in our area,” said
Kevin Cronin, Warrenton’s
Community Development di-
rector. The specialized timber
is “a specific building material
used in Portland, Seattle and
Vancouver. It’s sustainable
and, structurally, as sound if
not better than steel.”
The technique was de-
veloped in the ‘90s but has
caught on in the building
industry only in the last de-
cade. It’s made by gluing
layers of solid-sawn lumber
together with the grain in al-
ternating directions.
Fibre Federal has TLC Cred-
it Union branches in Astoria
and Seaside.
The branch is expected to
open in the fall.
d oWntoWn landsCaping
A call for bids last month
on landscaping and park im-
provements at the four-way
stop received just one bidder
and a submission much high-
er than expected, Community
Development Director Kevin
ANNUAL
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SALE
Cronin said.
“We have a couple of op-
tions: negotiate with the
bidder or rebid it,” he said.
“We’ll be bringing it back to
the agency with some options
on how to move forward.”
The project is part of down-
town improvements fund-
ed by the Warrenton Urban
Renewal Agency. It includes
turning the grassy area with
the new veterans memorial
into a park plaza.
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