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conference in New Orleans on the eve of the big, final
make-or-break vote on the commons — that the pendu-
lum finally swung in the favor of the project. Stolze had
to almost talk himself to death, but he finally convinced
Ogden that the tax-increment financing method of pay-
ing for urban renewal was not going to adversely affect
Tualatin taxpayers or businesspeople. Once the council
reached agreement, the necessary votes were taken,
and the project began to move forward.
Community surveys were conducted, and the ideas
were flying.
“Tualatin needs a classy center that separates us
from Beaverton and Tigard,” said one survey respon-
dent.”
“I’d like to see a European-style town or village
square, where people could meet for a cup of coffee to
play checkers, chess, dominoes or just visit in a relaxing
area without occupying a space that someone is waiting
for,” another wrote during the site visioning process.
Much credit for the project’s success has been given
to Janet Young, who served as Tualatin’s economic de-
velopment director during that formative period, and
she did her share of advocating on behalf of the com-
mons.
In a 1992 opinion piece in the Tualatin Times, Young
wrote, “Tualatin citizens have an opportunity which is
very rare in today’s suburbs: the chance to shape the
center of their city. In most rapidly growing suburbs,
prime central locations disappeared long ago to shop-
ping centers or office parks. Tualatin still has the
chance to shape the future of its central city.”
There were some snags along the way, of course. Be-
tween 1986 and ’89, the site was tied up with two devele-
lpers, both of whom eventually backed out.
“We knew we wanted a really nice restaurant in
there,” Stolze said. “Charlie Sitton and his father-in-law
stepped in and said ’we’ll build a hotel there.’” That be-
came the Century Hotel, and the attached restaurant,
Hayden’s Lakefront Grill, has never faultered.
Little by little, plans came together. Ground was bro-
ken in the summer of 1993, “in the field between South-
west Seneca Street and Nyberg Road, at the site of the
Hervin Co.,” according to the notice on the front page of
the Tualatin Times.
For almost a year, the downtown was even more of a
mess than normal. Then, in May of ’94, the official dedi-
cation took place, on a drizzly day beside the new lake.
Stolze was floored by the huge crowd that turned out for
that event. He was, after all, a builder, not a professional
politician or speaker.
The city has had visitors from all over the world to
see how urban renewal can be used to accomplish such
great things, said the former mayor.
“It’s been a very big success,” Stolze recalled. “I am
very proud of that project.”
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From page 7
Commons:
’a classy center’ needed
until 1992, however, that Tualatin finally had its own
middle and high schools.
According to Susan Stark Haydon, director of com-
munity school relations for the Tigard-Tualatin School
District, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Ti-
gard and Tualatin communities were growing at a rapid
rate. The need to provide additional classroom space
gave the district the additional opportunity to examine
how to best educate students. A decision was made to
move sixth-graders from the elementary schools into
grade 6-8 middle schools and to move ninth-graders into
a four-year high school program.
“The grade level change, combined with the fact that
existing schools were already overcrowded, led to the
decision to build a newmiddle school and high school in
Tualatin,” Stark Haydon said. “Voters in Tigard and vot-
ers in Tualatin approved the bond measure to build
these new schools. Splitting one high school into two
schools was a major event for the whole community.”
The move to middle schools was also a big change.
Hazelbrook was designed from the start to be a middle
school with a classroom “pod” structure so that the
teachers could have easy communication with each oth-
er, know what the other teachers were teachiing and
take that into consideration as they planned lessons.”
Now, Tualatin’s school system can boast an Interna-
tional Baccalaureate Program and distinguished gradu-
ates that have gone on to attend prestigious schools
such as Harvard, Stanford and Julliard and become doc-
tors, lawyers, engineers, musicians, entrepreneurs and
teachers. It’s a far cry from the original one-room school
house — but not from Tualatin’s general spirit.