Downtown Projects
 
 
Downtown Renaissance Parking Solutions Pacific University Civic Center Cultural Arts Center
 
 
CURRENT PROJECTS
 
Downtown Community Plan

Morgan and BaileyThe City of Hillsboro, working in partnership with businesses, neighbors, and organizations, has initiated a planning effort to guide the future of downtown and close-in neighborhoods. The Downtown Community Plan will entail several key stages:

  • crafting of a vision which portrays what kind of a place we want the downtown area to be in the future;
  • a framework which identifies public investments and desired private investments to fulfill the vision; and
  • implemenation measures to carry out the ideas in the framework plan.

A map showing the study area boundary with the neighborhoods surrounding downtown may be viewed here.

This is the community's plan. The City will strive to provide opportunities for the public to guide what the plan looks like. What kind of place to you want downtown to be in the future? What do you want our neighborhoods to look like? Where should new development be concentrated -- and where should we strive to preserve the things from our past that we treasure? These are the types of questions the Downtown Community Plan will address.

More comprehensive information on the Downtown Community Plan may be found here.

 
Pacific University Health Professionals Campus

Pacific UniversityIn the summer of 2005, Pacific University dramatically expanded its 55-acre campus in Forest Grove, OR with the purchase of land for its new Health Professions Campus in the neighboring city of Hillsboro. The campus will house the University’s College of Health Professions and College of Optometry. It is adjacent to the Tuality Healthcare Hillsboro Campus (anchored by Tuality Community Hospital), and the MAX Light Rail Line.

 
COMPLETED PROJECTS
 
Downtown Hillsboro Renaissance Project
Hillsboro RenaissanceSmall and large cities across the nation have cultivated an arts and culture presence to infuse vitality into their downtowns. Previously lifeless, neglected and sometimes crime ridden areas have seen a resurgence becoming full of life and activity.

 
Parking Solutions
Parking SolutionsThe Downtown Parking Solutions project represents an important component of the City’s efforts to strengthen the economic vitality of downtown Hillsboro. A Report prepared for the City in 2002 identified parking as arguably the most important issue to be addressed if we are to move forward with new private investment downtown.

 
Hillsboro Civic Center
Civic CenterThe new Hillsboro Civic Center is designed to consolidate city government into one building, regain a city hall identity and provide a mixed-use development, including retail and housing that will serve the city’s needs for years to come and help revitalize downtown.

 
The Glenn and Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center
Cultural Arts CenterLocated at the corner of SE 5th Avenue and Main Street, the cultural arts center was originally built as a church. Trinity Lutheran Church purchased the land in 1941 for $2250, began construction of the church building in 1947 and hosted its dedication on May 8, 1949. Since that time, the beautiful church building has remained a landmark in the Hillsboro community.

 

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