Downtown Projects
CURRENT PROJECTS
Downtown Community Plan
 The City of Hillsboro, working in partnership with businesses, neighbors, and organizations, has initiated a planning effort to guide the future of downtown and close-in neighborhoods. The Downtown Community Plan will entail several key stages:
- crafting of a vision which portrays what kind of a place we want the downtown area to be in the future;
- a framework which identifies public investments and desired private investments to fulfill the vision; and
- implemenation measures to carry out the ideas in the framework plan.
A map showing the study area boundary with the neighborhoods surrounding downtown may be viewed here.
This is the community's plan. The City will strive to provide opportunities for the public to guide what the plan looks like. What kind of place to you want downtown to be in the future? What do you want our neighborhoods to look like? Where should new development be concentrated -- and where should we strive to preserve the things from our past that we treasure? These are the types of questions the Downtown Community Plan will address.
We'd like to get an idea of how you feel about downtown Hillsboro. Click here to give us feedback on your impressions of downtown.
More comprehensive information on the Downtown Community Plan may be found here.
 In the summer of 2005, Pacific University dramatically expanded
its 55-acre campus in Forest Grove, OR with the purchase of land
for its new Health Professions Campus in the neighboring city of
Hillsboro. The campus will house the University’s College
of Health Professions and College of Optometry. It is adjacent
to the Tuality Healthcare Hillsboro Campus (anchored by Tuality
Community Hospital), and the MAX Light Rail Line.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
 Small and large cities across the nation have cultivated
an arts and culture presence to infuse vitality into their downtowns.
Previously lifeless, neglected and sometimes crime ridden areas
have seen a resurgence becoming full of life and activity.
 The
Downtown Parking Solutions project represents an important
component of the City’s efforts to strengthen the economic
vitality of downtown Hillsboro. A Report prepared for the
City in 2002
identified parking as arguably the most important issue to
be addressed if we are to move forward with new private investment
downtown.
 The new Hillsboro Civic Center is designed to consolidate city
government into one building, regain a city hall identity and provide
a mixed-use development, including retail and housing that will
serve the city’s needs for years to come and help revitalize
downtown.
 Located at the corner of SE 5th Avenue and Main Street, the cultural
arts center was originally built as a church. Trinity Lutheran
Church purchased the land in 1941 for $2250, began construction
of the church building in 1947 and hosted its dedication on May
8, 1949. Since that time, the beautiful church building has remained
a landmark in the Hillsboro community.
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