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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the weekend:
As predictable as traffic jams heading onto the Interstate 5 Bridge, state legislators are back in Olympia talking about Columbia River crossing options. And like other unchanging, interminable cycles, so returns talk of a tunnel solution to the river crossing problem.
Why do we not burrow beneath the Columbia River to solve our metropolitan-area traffic woes, rather than build a bridge above?
Read the full story: Interstate 5 tunnel: To be or not to be?
Speaking at the State of the County event last week, county Manager Shawn Henessee mentioned the county’s blue-ribbon commission currently at work at producing a recommendation to address Clark County’s antiquated jail. The commission is in the midst of considering complex issues around the size and location of the jail, Henessee told the crowd. But he added, “that’s in many ways a simple question when you start looking at all the things this jail will impact.”
“So not only do we have to look at the jail, but we have to look at the impact countywide,” Henessee said.
Determining that impact will take a little longer. As the commission turns to questions of how replacing or remodeling the county’s only jail will affect other local governments, it has for a second time extended its time frame for delivering its recommendation.
Read the full story: Recommendation on future of jail delayed until summer
In its brief existence, The Waterfront Vancouver has offered an urban development few could have thought possible in Vancouver.
Apartments, condominiums, restaurants, a hotel, a park and signature architectural details have emerged along the Columbia River, inspiring confidence that more of the same can be expected on the dozen or so remaining blocks.
It makes sense then that one of those blocks may one day be the home of a construction style that is the hot new thing.
The Trestle, as it’s been named, would be built on the development’s Block 14 with mass timber construction, employing all-wood structural components and rising to a height that would make it the tallest wood building in the United States, at least for now. The apartment house would be the latest in a line of other wood structures built by its Portland-based architecture firm.
Read the full story: Trendy timber at chic Waterfront Vancouver?
Joan E. Kuni, who was behind one of the largest charitable foundations in Southwest Washington, died Wednesday at age 88.
Her husband, Wayne Kuni, founded Vancouver-based Kuni Automotive in 1970 and created the Wayne D. Kuni & Joan E. Kuni Foundation before he died from lung cancer in 2006. The foundation was the largest shareholder of Kuni Automotive and in 2016 created a $50 million fund for cancer and other medical research and to enhance the lives of developmentally disabled adults — causes that were close to the Kunis’ hearts.
Read the full story: Kuni Foundation matriarch Joan Kuni dies at 88
