Orenco Station
| Orenco Station | |
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Brownstone residential dwelling.
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| Name origin: Orenco | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Oregon |
| Region | Washington County |
| District | Hillsboro |
| Coordinates | 45°31′50″N 122°55′00″W / 45.53056°N 122.91667°WCoordinates: 45°31′50″N 122°55′00″W / 45.53056°N 122.91667°W |
| Timezone | Pacific |
| Postal code | 97124 |
Orenco Station is a neighborhood of the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. The planned urban town center was designed as a pedestrian-friendly, high-density community built in conjunction with TriMet’s Westside light rail. It was built on land formerly owned by the Oregon Nursery Company, land home around the turn of the 20th century to Orenco, a company town. During the Great Depression, the company went out of business, and much of the nursery land became vacant until re-development began in 1997. Orenco Station is near the intersection of NW 231st/NW 229th Avenues and Cornell Road, centered on the Orenco Station MAX stop.
The town of Orenco was named after the company, with OREgon Nursery COmpany becoming ORENCO. After the company closed, the town disincorporated in 1938. In 1993, construction on TriMet’s extension to its MAX Light Rail system began, and planning for new high-density neighborhoods along the line continued, including plans for Orenco Station. The area near the old town of Orenco was labeled a “Town Center” by Metro in its 2040 plan for the region.
Orenco Station was developed on 209 acres (0.85 km2) in the east-central area of Hillsboro. The master developer, Pacific Realty Associates (PacTrust), along with its residential partner Costa Pacific Homes, designed it to mimic older neighborhoods and be more pedestrian-friendly than traditional suburbs. Zoning ordinances were changed to allow narrower streets, side-yard easements, garages on alleys, and measures to allow live-work homes, among other changes. The development was a mixed-used neighborhood combining both retail and residential along the light rail line and in the middle of high-tech employers. Residential options include apartments, single-family dwellings, condominiums, and town homes. Orenco Station also contains a large park named Central Park located just north of the retail core, along with smaller parks spread throughout the development as a trade-off for smaller yards created by the smaller lot sizes in the development. Homes in the development are situated closer to the street than in traditional developments, and all were built with Category 5 cable installed in the dwellings.
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