South Hillsboro Project - Update!

By now you've probably heard of the South Hillsboro Project.  It's the section of Hillsboro south of TV HWY, between 209th and 229th, that BIG area of farmland.  It's 1400 acres that will soon be everything from apartments, to senior living, condo and townhomes, detached homes, as well as retail, offices, even schools and parks.  South Hillsboro is going to have it all.  I posted a blog article on it about a year ago, check that out here.



Check out the full map and all the details at the City of Hillsboro.

South Hillsboro, otherwise known as SoHi, is going to have 8,000 dwellings!  That's likely to be over 20,000 people!  Fifty-seven percent of the homes will be single family detached homes with lot sizes ranging from 3,500 square feet to 10,000 square feet.  Twenty-two percent will be single family attached homes (condos and townhomes) and 21% will be multi-family homes. They will be putting in three grade schools, a middle school and possibly a high school.  It's going to be a mixed use community, kind of like Orenco Station with commercial and residential together, a focus on high performance homes and access to public transportation.   

They are partnering up with Energy Trust of Oregon for cash incentives, Solar World for solar kits to builders at reduced costs, Oregon Department of Energy for energy tax credits, PGE for Nest Smart Thermostats Pilot Program and electric vehicle ready charging infrastructure and Earth Advantage for technical assistance outreach and training.  Wouldn't it be great if they could get those new glass tile roofs from Tesla! 

A couple of the developers are Newland Communities and Pahlisch Homes, but there are many more.  Before any of the homes can be built, the intersection at Cornelius Pass has to be completed.  This means taking the current intersection that tees at TV Highway and punching it over the railroad tracks and into the new SoHi development.  Once that is completed, they'll be able to start on construction.  Here's the current expectations for the first five years of construction.  Keep in mind that this timeline has evolved more times that we can probably count, but this is what the current plan is.

First 5 Years:	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	Total
SingleFamilyDetach	226	265	285	202	202	1180
Condo/Townhomes	148	160	164	181	181	834
Apartments	124	123	123	108	108	586
Retails/Office	27,000	26,000	26,000	23,700	23,700	126,400

With 500 residences scheduled the first year, this is going to increase the housing market considerably! 

In order to have this new section of Hillsboro, the city is going to be improving and changing some of the intersections in that area.  In 2017, the intersection at 229th and TV Highway, by the Fred Meyer and Key Bank, will be a cul-de-sac south of the railroad tracks and will no longer go across TV Highway.  The intersection at 209th and TV Highway, which is currently very congested, will get widened in 2019.  They are also planning on widening Cornelius Pass north of TV Highway to Johnson in 2019.  Finally, the intersection at Century and TV Highway will get worked on in 2020. 

The South Hillsboro Project is going to completely change the face of Hillsboro.  Basically they are adding a small town into an already existing one.  It sounds like they are going to have high standards and make this a community that anyone would be proud to live in!  There's even talk of a Street of Dreams in SoHi too.  I can't wait to watch the community grow.  Next time you're driving down TV Highway between 209th & 229th, look at the farmland to the south and you'll see that the dirt work has started!

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