Raymond Rendleman
January 14, 2022
City officials on Jan. 12 celebrated the completion of a new Oregon City Operations Center at 13895 Fir St., renovated from a nearly 5-acre site of a former beverage distribution company’s shuttered warehouse.

Prior to helping cut the ceremonial ribbon, Mayor Rachel Lyles Smith said that it should “put our minds at ease” to know that the facility will increase coordination and efficiency of response to future disasters, like the recent wildfires and ice storm. Smith commended the city for completing the $12.8 million project by saving funds over the past decades to provide a modernized public-works Operations Center.

“I am very proud that we’ve made this investment without going to the public for a bond or going into debt,” Smith said.

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