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https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026...ore-cash-misses-2025-groundbreaking.html

Ambitious OMSI District lands more cash, misses 2025 groundbreaking
Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 6:00 a.m.
By Jonathan Bach | The Oregonian/OregonLive

A plan to redevelop the 24 acres of parking lots and vacant land surrounding the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry got another funding lift Tuesday when the City of Portland received $850,000 to fund infrastructure work on Water Avenue.

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, who secured the money as part of the ​​Congressional Community Project Funding process, handed city leaders a symbolic check at a press conference inside OMSI’s cafe.

Left unsaid at the press conference was that OMSI District leaders had missed their planned 2025 groundbreaking.

Years in the making, the plans won Portland Design Commission approval in 2023. The Portland City Council in 2024 approved $15.4 million for the OMSI District leaders’ plans to reconfigure roads and a new waterfront park to serve tens of millions of dollars in private development. At the time, OMSI had said it would seek to break ground on the district last year.

That didn’t happen.

“The design and value engineering process has taken longer than we anticipated,” an OMSI spokesperson said by email later Tuesday. “That said, we are making progress, and we have forward momentum.”

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OMSI President and CEO Erin Graham said the $850,000 would help pay to modernize two intersections on the north and south ends of the OMSI District.

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