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PORTLAND AIRPORT MAX EXTENSION - PORTLAND, OREGON Project Image
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Name Portland Airport MAX Extension Project
Location Portland, Oregon
Mode Light rail transit
Description

5.5 mile light rail extension of existing 33-mile MAX light rail system

Will link CBD to Portland International Airport of the MAX light rail system

4 stations (two stations on parcel leased to Bechtel joint venture next to airport

Sponsor Port of Portland
Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District (Tri-Met)
City of Portland Development Commission
Cost $125 million
Type of Finance 100% local project funding:
$28.3 million Port of Portland (passenger facility charges)
$45.5 million Tri-Met (General Fund)
$23.0 million City of Portland (Urban Renewal/Tax Increment)
$28.2 million Cascade Station Dev. Co.
Revenue Sources see above
Project Delivery / Contract Method Design-build: Bechtel Infrastructure
Joint development agreement
Private Investor Partner Cascade Station Development Company, LLC. (Bechtel Enterprises) Trammel Crow has left the partnership
Project Advisors Neil Goldschmidt
Morgan Guaranty Trust
Lenders  
Physical Status Opened September 2001
Financial Status Closed
Innovations

Exchange of land development rights -- Cascade Station Development Co., LLC providing 20% of total project cost in return for a long-term lease hold for 120 acres at Cascade Station.

Related Links / Articles

Moody's Credit Rating*

Airport MAX Homepage
Cascade Station Development Company, LLC.-- 120-acre mixed use commercial development planned adjacent to LRT.

Contacts

Tri-Met
Airport MAX Extension Project
Tel: (503) 962-2266
WALSHJ@tri-met.org

Port of Portland
Jim Laubenthal
Tel:(503) 944-7526

Last Review/Update Airport MAX, March 2004

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