St. Johns Brownfield Cleanup

Site Address:  8735 N Lombard Street

Date of approval:  Fall 2005

Acreage: .16

Zoning: Commercial 

Request For Qualifications 

The City of Portland Brownfield Program within the Bureau of Environmental Services issued a Request For Qualifications for development on a City owned property at 8735 N Lombard Ave in St. Johns (N Lombard at N Baltimore) with potential inclusion of the St. Johns Racquet Center property. 

Click here to download the RFQ.    Once downloaded please send notification to Clark Henry (contact info below) that you have done so in order to receive updates or changes.  Thank you.

For questions please call Clark Henry at (503) 823-5863.   Email clarkh@bes.ci.portland.or.us

Site History

Portland Brownfield Program staff was contacted by the Portland Development Commission regarding available resources for assessment and cleanup of this site, a former gasoline station and auto garage.   Portland Development Commission transferred the property to the Bureau of Environmental Services so that the Portland Brownfield Program could coordinate steps for development: environmental assessments, an Environmental Protection Agency brownfield cleanup grant, a public involvement process, and the issuing of a public Request For Proposals.

Phase II Environmental Site Assessment was conducted in late spring 2006.  Cleanup, completed in summer 2006, included the removal of nine underground storage tanks as well as limited soil contaminated with petroleum, heavy metals, and construction debris.  The sidewalk was reconstructed and backfill was brought in to replace the excavated topsoil.

Public meetings were held in November 2006 and January and June 2007.  A community advisory committee developed a Request for Proposals for site development. 

Advisory Committee 

A list of key perspectives and community groups to be represented on the Advisory Committee was created during the first two public neighborhood meetings on 11/01/06 and 01/24/07.  The Committee was then selected through an application process to represent the wide range of stakeholder interests in St. Johns.  Advisory Committee members are: 

• James Hayes, business owner and resident
• Michael Selin, business owner, commercial property owner and resident
• Mary Ann Aschenbrenner, long-time resident and recreation advocate
• Jay Breslow, James John Elementary SUN program, youth advocate
• Michael Kohlhoff, Commercial and residential property owner, tennis advocate
• Sharron Rae, Cathedral Park neighborhood resident
• Martin Campos, new resident
• Richard Arnold, tennis advocate, resident
• Thomas Ebert, St. Johns Neighborhood Association
• Jim Schaller, North Portland Business Association 

The Advisory Committee will meet again once proposals are submitted.  Time and place will be posted here. 

Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 3
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 4
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 5
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 6
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 7
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 8
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 9
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 10
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 11
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 12
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 13
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 14
• Minutes from Advisory Committee Meeting 15 and 16

The first two Advisory Committee meetings were informal introductions to the Committee members and the site; no minutes were drafted.

Public Neighborhood Meeting Minutes 

• Minutes from all 4 public neighborhood meetings 

Other Project Information                

• Cleanup Alternatives Analysis
• St. Johns Brownfield Cleanup Fact Sheet
• A Letter from the Commissioners