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development continues to
add new townhomes north-
east of town.
build relationships with area
school districts so that the
facility will be an option for
youth sports training and
clinics.
The property is under
new ownership, after the old
court club’s owner Steve
Watkinds sold the business
in 2018. The fire that tore
through the inside of the
building in June 2016 was
ruled accidental, caused by
an electrical short on the
upper floor. Watkinds had
originally hoped to reopen
the business himself, but
after two years of back-
and-forth with the insur-
ance company said he had
decided to let “the younger
generation” take a crack at
resurrecting the damaged
building.
New owner Orien Fian-
der said in an email that
reopening an athletic facil-
ity there will fill a need in
Hermiston, which is “an
exceptionally hard-work-
ing community who support
local sports and are big into
family.”
“The Hermiston commu-
nity is absolutely great,” he
said. “I just love the town.”
Adams said Fiander has
more than 20 years of expe-
rience in the fitness indus-
try. Adams grew up in the
area and moved away for
about 15 years to manage
two gyms in the St. George,
Utah, area before deciding
he wanted to return to the
Pacific Northwest.
Adams said pre-sales
for memberships will start
in August, which is when
he’ll start looking at staff-
ing too. He said they are still
working on price points but
will offer “pretty standard”
membership options.
For more information,
visit www.hermistonathlet-
icclub.com.
Stanfield
A new housing develop-
ment in Stanfield, Patriot
Heights, recently received
federal funding for 40 new
homes near the intersection
of Locust Street and High-
way 395.
The money, awarded by
Oregon Housing and Com-
munity Services, totals just
over $8 million in construc-
tion costs, and is part of
$45.5 million awarded to 11
different developments in
Oregon.
“The Housing Author-
ity had been looking at
Stanfield as a local town
that didn’t have affordable
housing,” said Ryan Strad-
ley, executive director at
Umatilla County Housing
Authority.
Stradley said Hayden
Homes — which builds in
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho — will break ground
on the 12-month construc-
tion project next spring, at a
predicted cost of $253,000
per unit.
The funding comes from
a number of sources, includ-
ing low income housing tax
credits, the U.S. Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban
Development’s
HOME
program and the National
Housing Trust Fund.
The project’s target pop-
ulation is families, and the
developments will feature
32 two- to four-bedroom
single family homes as
well as eight one-bedroom
duplexes.
Two of the duplexes
will be available to those
who make 30% of the area
median income. Other hous-
ing options will be avail-
able for renters who earn
less than the area median
income in Umatilla County,
which is currently $60,700.
A family of four mak-
ing as much as $36,420 a
year — 60% of the AMI —
could be eligible for a spot
Staff photo by Jade McDowell
A sign at Cimmaron Terrace in Hermiston advertises new town homes for lease.
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
A vacant parcel of land along Highway 395 in Stanfield will soon be home to a 40-home
federally funded housing development called Patriot Heights.
at Patriot Heights, Stradley
said.
Funding for Patriot
Heights was secured after
five years of proposals,
according to Stradley.
So what made this year
different?
Umatilla Morrow Head
Start will be opening an
early learning center for
Stanfield residents on the
site of the development.
Patriot Heights will also
feature a community cen-
ter with a computer lab and
recreational space for pri-
vate events.
“It was the addition of
the community center with
Head Start that put us over
the top,” Stradley said.
A resident services man-
ager will provide residents
with referrals for child and
health care, as well as work-
force development.
It can be more diffi-
cult, Stradley said, for rural
affordable housing to land
near services like child
care and health care, which
makes a funding applica-
tion more likely to pass.
“Other areas get more
points for the availability of
services,” he said.
Originally, the develop-
ment was set to include 53
apartments, rather than the
40 single-family homes.
But because most veri-
fied contractors who build
apartments come from
more metropolitan areas,
details like lodging for the
contractors can make build-
ing apartments more costly,
Stradley said.
Stradley said the switch
shaved $4 million off the
application for funding.
City clerk and interim
city manager of Stanfield
Sandy Endicott said she
was unsure how the devel-
opment will compare to
previous developments in
Stanfield.
“This will definitely be
a much needed addition to
our housing,” she said.
According to the Ore-
gon Housing Alliance, one
in six renters in Umatilla
County pay over half of
their income to rent. For
every 100 families with
“extremely low” incomes,
there are only 32 affordable
housing units available.
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