
Christian Wihtol
Contributor at The Lund Report
Associate Editor, Editorial Department, The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR
Articles
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1 week ago |
eugeneweekly.com | Christian Wihtol
Slocum Orthopedics, Lane County’s premier musculoskeletal surgical group, is moving ahead with building a standalone ambulatory surgery center on Chad Drive in northeast Eugene. As previously reported in this column, the physician-owned Slocum, headquartered on Coburg Road in Eugene, last October bought a six-acre parcel in the field west of the former Register-Guard newspaper headquarters on Chad.
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1 week ago |
eugeneweekly.com | Christian Wihtol
The Eugene 4J School District’s long angst over its ownership of the vacant downtown former Wells Fargo building may soon be over. Lane County has tentatively offered to take the building off the district’s hands for $2.95 million. That means the school district would roughly break even on its real estate adventure after having bought the building in February 2024 for $2,894,000.
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2 weeks ago |
eugeneweekly.com | Christian Wihtol
A rapidly expanding out-of-state credit union has gobbled up the prominent vacant Shari’s Café and Pies restaurant in Springfield’s Gateway area and plans to demolish the hexagonal building and put up a credit union branch and drive-thru. Lacey, Washington-based TwinStar Credit Union bought the boarded-up Shari’s property on May 7 for an undisclosed price, according to the deed.
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3 weeks ago |
eugeneweekly.com | Christian Wihtol
Late in the evening of Feb. 7, 2024, Andy Dey, at that time superintendent of the Eugene school district, was jubilant. The school board had just approved his plan to buy the empty former Wells Fargo building in downtown Eugene and remodel it into the district’s administrative offices. At Dey’s direction, the district the next day sent buoyant announcements to media, staff and parents. Dey gave upbeat interviews.
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3 weeks ago |
eugeneweekly.com | Christian Wihtol
McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center’s much-anticipated freestanding emergency department in Eugene will go on a vacant parcel just west of Chambers Street, plans filed with the city show. Many Eugene residents have been awaiting news after the Springfield hospital’s CEO declared eight months ago that McKenzie-Willamette would open an emergency department somewhere in Eugene, without providing specifics. The lack of updates since then led some Eugene residents to fear the project stalled.
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