Tag Archives: Centennial Mills

Portland Area

Jordan Schnitzer demands $1.3 million from city of Portland | OregonLive.com

Last year, city officials signed off on more money: an $8.6 million contract to demolish most of the old buildings on the property, pushing costs to nearly $22 million. Now, officials hope to recoup some of that. Soon, they’ll hire a broker to list one acre of land, which includes a 45,000-square-foot flour mill. Officials plan to require full restoration of the seven-story flour mill, and they’ll give developers an option to renovate a 21,500-squre-foot feed mill on site.

Plans for Centennial Mills are unclear after city officials said a proposal from Harsch Investment Properties isn’t financially viable. Crews began demolishing part of the property earlier this year. Brad Schmidt/The Oregonian

Source: Jordan Schnitzer demands $1.3 million from city of Portland | OregonLive.com

Deconstruction

Despite what looks like a full-on demolition, some of Centennial Mills’ timbers will be salvaged – Portland Business Journal

Though many of the smaller lumber boards at Centennial Mills are not being salvaged — due to their size, condition and economic worth — Pioneer Millworks is hoping to salvage at least 400,000 board feet of timber from the site.

Though many of the smaller lumber boards at Centennial Mills are not being salvaged.

Orpin said his firm originally hoped to salvage about 800,000 board feet of timber from the Centennial Mills site. However, due to “rot and the difficult cost benefits of saving all the smaller pieces,” he now expects that Pioneer will be able to salvage about 400,000 board feet.

Source: Despite what looks like a full-on demolition, some of Centennial Mills’ timbers will be salvaged – Portland Business Journal