Sustainability Center lands $250K grant
By Andy Giegerich
Business Journal Staff Writer
The city's signature sustainability project has collected $250,000 to help leaders craft educational programs.
The Meyer Memorial Trust awarded the grant to the Oregon Sustainability Center, which will sit next to the Portland State University campus. The grant will fund "outreach and education programming" related to academic and student uses on the center’s first two floors.
The Meyer trust becomes the first foundation to invest in the Oregon Sustainability Center.
The center's programming will showcase land use and transportation planning activities, waste management development, green energy, local food and green economic development.
The Oregon University System submitted the grant request on behalf of a partnership with six other groups. The Portland Development Commission is the center’s project manager.
Project leaders will hold a public meeting to review schematic design alternatives for the center on Jan. 18. The meeting takes place between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at PSU’s Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom, 1825 S.W. Broadway, in room 355.
agiegerich@bizjournals.com
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