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If awarded, these grants support the implementation of the 2035 Comprehensive Plan. Specifically, policies directing Portland to invest in a vibrant centers and corridors, including the Central City, and to support economic prosperity, especially for middle-wage jobs.

The legislation authorizes the application for five grants to support planning projects:

• The Columbia River Interstate Bridgehead (CRIB) project will evaluate the land use, zoning and urban design constraints and opportunities created by the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) Program, which is a large transformational capital project that will have significant localized impacts on surrounding land uses and circulation patterns as well as visual and aesthetic impacts. The IBR Program will create new land use opportunities in the vicinity of the new proposed light rail transit station area on Hayden Island. This project will create visualizations to illustrate how the bridge design can be influenced to minimize physical and visual barriers and maximize land use opportunities under and near the bridge and around the new transit station. The land use and zoning evaluation and urban design and transportation visualizations will be used: to inform the city’s input on the project during the environmental review and early (30%) design phases, which are happening between now and late 2024/early 2025; ensure that the city can shape the project in a manner that is consistent with City Council direction; and to inform future actions with respect to land use planning, zoning, and street/circulation plans etc. that the city may need to take in response to the project.
• The Green Loop: Operations and Programming for Equitable Development project will result in an implementation strategy to guide the phased build-out, ownership, operations, and programming of the Green Loop in the Central City in a manner that creates vibrant active destinations that feel welcoming and reflective of a broad range of Portlanders and offers equitable economic opportunities. This vision requires a concrete, comprehensive and cross-functional roadmap to ensure a coordinated and committed approach with defined roles and partnerships.  
• The Center for Tribal Nations (CTN) project is a state-of-the-art campus to be developed on land in the OMSI District, with the goal of supporting the economic, social, and cultural prosperity of Native Americans in Oregon. The CTN will incorporate private, public, and semi-public spaces, including retail, makerspace and coworking, hospitality and food service, and communal event space, all designed with the unique needs of Native American communities in mind. This grant proposal will fund community engagement and equitable design process, including: (1) the Center for Tribal Nations Advisory Council (CTNAC), a community listening process that will engage members of the Native community from throughout the Pacific Northwest, and representing tribes from across Turtle Island, to inform the design and strategy of the CTN, (2) outreach and recruitment efforts to Native-owned businesses and organizations, (3) a Native Economic Development strategy to ensure long term success of the CTN, and (4) schematic designs for the CTN campus.
• The Portland Industrial Site Readiness project will analyze a strategic list of developable industrial sites to identify next steps to get these sites ready for development. The project is an early implementation action both for Portland’s Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA) Update to reduce forecasted industrial land shortfalls, and for Advance Portland to support target industry growth. Portland’s industrial districts include about 1,700 acres of constrained, underutilized sites that are unlikely to develop under current conditions. The development constraints include brownfield cleanup, infrastructure limitations, environmental/natural resource protection, and others. The project will identify strategic actions to overcome industrial development constraints and expand Portland’s development-ready inventory.
• The Eastbank Crescent Environmental Mitigation Bank project is a partnership between the City of Portland, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), and the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) to develop the Eastbank Crescent site, located on the northern most section of OMSI’s waterfront, as a pilot mitigation bank. This grant will allow the project to advance to 30 percent design engineering in concert with OMSI’s Waterfront Education Park (WEP) design process (funded in part by Metro’s Large Scale Community Vision grant). The grant will also fund the development of the Mitigation Bank Prospectus and draft Mitigation Bank Instrument which are both required for regulatory approval to utilize the credits for federal and state environmental laws and permits typically required for riverfront industrial projects.