2020 BUILD Grant - John Day Innovation Gateway Economic Revitalization

The 2020 BUILD grant will help the John Day achieve its Strategy for Growth to attract new residents and businesses by helping the city build a complete street network more welcoming to all users, including those walking, biking, driving automobiles, and riding public transportation.

Project Overview

This project will build over 4.3 miles of new street improvements, including:

• 2,500 linear feet of highway improvements to U.S. Highway 26
• 5,400 linear feet of new arterial streets
• 2,866 linear feet of new collector streets
• 12,455 linear feet of new local/connector streets
• 80,080 square feet of new parking on U.S. Highway 26 and local area attractions
• One (1) intersection improvement project
• Structural improvements to one (1) existing bridge (currently inoperable) at Oregon Pine to open it for public use by bikes, pedestrians and emergency/service vehicles
• One (1) new multimodal bridge for vehicles, bikes and pedestrian access
• One (1) new multimodal bridge for bikes and pedestrians, integrated with parking, trails and public transit stops to tie together the city’s disconnected park transportation infrastructure

The extension of the 7th Street minor arterial, Innovation Gateway and U.S. Highway 26 improvements and the Holmstrom Road and Bridge are the most critical project components in this proposal. The 7th Street minor arterial will connect the only two functioning bridges to the north side of the city (Patterson Bridge and Bridge Street Bridge). Both bridges are rated Fair and moving toward Poor condition. These are the city’s most used bridges, accounting for 2,164 daily trips across the John Day River on an average weekday. Making this connection, combined with the addition of the new Holmstrom Road and Bridge, will significantly increase flood resilience and future housing growth while also creating an integrated network of trails and local access streets along the John Day River and its adjacent natural areas. The project will also: create connections to a new 50-room hotel, 250 person event center, and distillery at the Innovation Gateway; create access to new residential neighborhoods; and provide public access to wastewater reuse projects, educational areas, and community gathering places to complete the City’s local street network.

Project Components

There are 11 discrete project components associated with this project. They are:

1. 7th Street West Extension

2. Government Entry Road & Industrial Park

3. Gateway Drive

4. Ironwood Estates (Phase 2 & Phase 3)

5. Highway 26 & Innovation Gateway Transportation Improvements

6. Johnson DR Drive

7. Charolais Heights Intersection

8. Integrated Park System Transportation Improvements

9. 7th Street East & Holmstrom Road and Bridge

10. Downtown Parking Improvements

11. Mahogany Ridge workforce housing

The total estimated cost for the project is $19,705,204.71. The City of John Day and our teammates have committed $2,156,547.24 in local match (11 percent). The city is requesting $17,548,657.48 in BUILD grant funding (89 percent). These components, sources and uses of grant funds, and other information about the City's BUILD application is provided as attachments, below.