Description of asbestos and vermiculite facility site

The former Vermiculite Northwest facility (40,000 square feet) was located in a warehouse at 2302 N. Harding. The site is situated in an industrial area approximately two blocks south of the Fremont Bridge and two blocks northeast of the Willamette River.

The area is zoned General Industrial and is located in the Eliot Neighborhood. The property is within Portland’s Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal District, with Interstate Avenue situated two blocks east. Bordering former Vermiculite Northwest are warehouses and empty lots. The property to the south is an electrical substation. Directly to the east of the warehouse are railroad tracks.

The nearest residences to former Vermiculite Northwest are walk-up apartment buildings approximately one-quarter mile northeast of the site on Mississippi Avenue and Knott Street. According to the 1990 census, there were 1,078 residents who lived within 1 mile of former Vermiculite Northwest.

The two closest residential neighborhoods are approximately three-quarters of a mile north in the Overlook Neighborhood and to the east in the Eliot Neighborhood. There are two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school within one mile of the property. Parks within one mile of the site include the Lillis-Albina, Dawson, Overlook, Unthank, and Denorval Parks.