Bend Core Area Plan

Real Estate + Feasibility
Written by Dacie Doucette

Bend Core Area Plan

Bend, OR · 2019

 

Client: City of Bend
Location: Bend, OR
Year: 2019
CP Role: Sub-consultant to Angelo Planning Group
Practice Area: Spatial Planning + Placemaking
Team: Alex Joyce, Development Feasibility; Alex Steinberger, Redevelopment Analysis; Victor Tran, Financial Analysis

 

The Challenge

After Bend expanded its urban growth boundary, the City wanted the Core Area around downtown to become a mixed-use district, but its zoning was holding back private investment.

Our Approach

We built the market and feasibility case for the plan. We interviewed active landowners and developers, mapped the economic drivers of redevelopment, and used a tipping-point pro forma tool to estimate what each building type could pay for land and which parcels would redevelop. We then audited the zoning code against those numbers and national best practice for mixed-use districts.

Outcome

Council supported the resulting code changes in early 2020 and the City adopted them in 2021. The work led to our 2022 engagement with the Bend Urban Renewal Agency to design the Core Area investment programs.

 

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