I drove through Jantzen Beach a couple weeks ago to see how the new 'mall' was progressing. What a waste of space. It's a sprawling mess! You have to get in your car to drive from big box to big box. There's no center of the development from which the retails radiate, it's just a mismatch of box building all over the place. Cascade Station is by no means a model for retailing centers, but it is 1000% better than the mess at Hayden Island! It's a shame that's our major northern entry to Oregon.
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make paradise, tear up a parking lot
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