Serving the Mid-Columbia region of Oregon and Washington, providing regional economic development and business assistance.Mid–Columbia Economic Development District

Mid Columbia Economic Development District strives to promote the creation of family-wage jobs, the diversification of the economic base, and the growth, development and retention of business and industry in Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Klickitat and Skamania Counties

MCEDD is organized as a government non-profit in Oregon as an ORS-190 and in Washington through RCW 39.34.010.

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Regional Infrastructure Priorities Adopted

March 22, 2018 – In March 2018 the MCEDD Board of Directors analyzed and adopted regional priorities for infrastructure needed throughout the five county region. Priorities were adopted as follows Washington Technical Assistance/Public Works Rank Project 1 White Salmon Slow Sand Filter Water System 2 Stevenson Wastewater System 3 Dallesport Industrial Park Improvement Projects 3 Cascades Business Park (North Bonneville) 5 Bingen Point Industrial Park Projects 6 Goldendale Energy Storage Project (previously John Day Pool) 7 Stevenson Shoreline Restoration 8 Columbia Gorge Regional Airport Runway Rehabilitation and Lengthening 9 Goldendale Municipal Airport Improvements 10 Skamania PUD Improvements: Undergrounding utilities, Stabler Feeder Upgrade and North Bonneville Substation Oregon Technical Assistance/Public Works Rank Project 1 Workforce Housing Projects Hood River: Update workforce housing plans; explore opportunities to relocate facilities; and evaluate construction excise taxes collected to date. Sherman: Enhance workforce housing incentives for construction of new units Wasco: Columbia Gorge Community College Student Housing and Skills Center 2 Biggs Water System 3 Deschutes Rim Medical Clinic Expansion 4 Mosier Well Repair 5 Bridge of the Gods Maintenance and Pedestrian/Bicycle Improvements 6 Confluence Business Park Infrastructure (Hood River) 7 Dog River Pipeline Upgrade 8 Parkdale and Odell Treatment of Biosolids/Sludge 9 Mosier Fire Hall/City Hall 10 South Sherman Fire Hall For more information on the projects visit: https://www.mcedd.org/strategy/priorities/   [Continue Reading]

John Day Pumped Storage (Goldendale Energy) Project Advances

March 12, 2018 – The regionally significant proposed John Day Pumped Storage project took another step forward. The Portland Business Journal reports: “A proposed $2 billion pumped-hydro energy storage project alongside the Columbia River has taken a “small but very important step” forward, as backers termed it, winning a permit from federal regulators to explore its feasibility. Other similar proposals at the site, 110 miles upriver from Portland, have made it to this point before, then faded away in the face of a tangle of financing, regulatory and energy market issues. But the project leader this time around, Rye Development, along with partner National Grid, believes the rising need for flexible generating capacity on a grid with evermore variable wind and solar provides a compelling rationale for what it calls the Goldendale Energy Storage Project. The preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission runs for three years and gives the Rye group dibs on applying for a license to actually build a facility.” Read more from the Portland Business Journal here.   [Continue Reading]

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