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The mixed-use redevelopment of
Missoula's Old Sawmill District is
adding new residential units and
commercial office and retail space.
Brownfield Offers
New Vitality
PROJECT: OLD SAWMILL DISTRICT
MISSOULA, MONTANA
FIRM: WGM GROUP
MISSOULA, MONTANA
A
once-blighted 46-acre area near
the heart of Missoula, Montana,
is being transformed into a
vibrant mixed-use neighborhood,
thanks to local determination, private
investment and city of Missoula and
Brownfield redevelopment funds.
Now known as the Old Sawmill District, the area was home to a lumber mill
complex for more than 80 years. A central player in Montana's wood products
industry, the mill used the nearby Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers to transport
and process logs on-site.
The mill closed in the late 1980s, but
industrial manufacturing continued for a
decade before the site was abandoned in
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the early 1990s. After the mill's
Now covered with
closure, the property was left
topsoil and grass, those
unattended, becoming an eyeareas have been turned
sore to the surrounding neighinto parkland within the
borhoods. However, its prime
development.
Brent Campbell
riverfront location-just half a
WGM Group
dozen blocks from the downtown busideveloped conceptual plans for the Old
ness area-made it a desirable candidate
Sawmill District redevelopment and
for redevelopment.
was central in the land use planning,
One challenge of this multiphase projthe complete street section component
ect was the extent of environmental reme- of the project, including landscape
diation required prior to redevelopment.
architecture, the creation of bike
Several decades of heavy industrial use
lanes and utilities development. The
left environmental contamination that
firm's other responsibilities included
required mitigation. The site underwent
coordination with the environmental
15 years of assessment and cleanup under
cleanup, a riverfront park and trail
a Voluntary Cleanup Plan, which was
system, and planning the urban mixedcompleted in the spring of 2014.
use development.
"There were other significant site issues
Today, the Old Sawmill District is
just because of the land use," says Brent
on its way to becoming an exemplary
Campbell, president and CEO of WGM
brownfield and infill redevelopment,
Group, Missoula, which has been instrucombining single- and multifamily
mental throughout the cleanup and rederesidences and mixed-use commercial
velopment. "For example, there was an
office space. A new 14-acre city park
accumulation of 30 feet of sawdust under
along the river extends the Clark Fork
a third of the site. Because everything was trail system and brings the community
so overgrown, the site was drilled to figtogether in an area that would have been
ure out where the sawdust was located."
avoided altogether a few years ago.
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Engineering Inc - July/August 2018
Engineering Inc - July/august 2018
Contents
From Acec to You
Market Watch
Legislative Action
Experienced Help Wanted
Esops Accelerating
Three-Dimensional Engineering
Pli Market Staying on Course
New Technology
Managing Conflict
Urban Restoration Projects
Guest Column
Mergers and Acquisitions
Members in the News
Business Insights
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - Contents
Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - 2
Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - 3
Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - From Acec to You
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - Market Watch
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - Legislative Action
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - Experienced Help Wanted
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - Esops Accelerating
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - Three-Dimensional Engineering
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Engineering Inc - July/August 2018 - New Technology
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