REDMOND, OR -- Redmond City Council has advanced plans to realign Southwest Salmon Avenue to improve traffic flow. Mayor George Endicott says News Salmon will eventually curve south, just east of 19th. "There's going to be kind of an 'S' shape, and go over and connect into Odem Medo," Endicott told KBND News Wednesday, "We're rebuilding a strip of the roadway there so you get a connection at a signalized intersection." He says bringing Salmon to a signal at Canal will fix the left-turn problem in that growing residential area.
It means the demolition of the old Parks and Rec facility at Canal and Odem Medo; although one building can be moved if a buyer is found, "It was built 10 years ago by Redmond Area Parks and Rec. We loaned them the property - or, leasted it to them for nothing for 10 years. So, if anyone wants a building, go look at it, talk to the contractor. I mean, destruction is built in the contract, but it was built to be moved." That $1.1 million contract with Knife River was approved by Council earlier this week. Endicott says construction could begin in July.
