New St. Vinnie’s thrift now open at 888 Garfield St.

Donations, New Developments, Retail-Thrift Stores

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP) welcomed customers to its newest St. Vinnie’s store, at 888 Garfield St., with grand-opening festivities on Sept. 29. Hundreds of opening-day customers enjoyed free refreshments and had a chance to win door prizes...

Ascend Home rises thanks to CBT Nuggets’ $2 million gift

New Developments, Self-Sufficiency, Supportive Housing

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Inc. (SVdP) broke ground July 12 on Ascend Home, a new eight-unit transitional housing apartment complex adjacent to SVdP’s First Place Family Center at The Annex, 4060 W. Amazon Drive. These units will provide supportive...

SVdP-aligned HOPE venture to build housing solutions

Affordable Housing, Employment, New Developments

Steel workers once created heavy-duty logging implements in the cavernous manufacturing plant at 888 Garfield St., which dates to 1957. After the timber industry’s decline, the facility served as mostly quiet warehouse space for several decades. Now, another...

New affordable/transitional-housing developments

Affordable Housing, New Developments, Property Management, Supportive Housing

St Vincent de Paul of Lane County Society of Lane County (SVdP) is an anchor in the community: from one-of-a-kind programs addressing education equity for children and youth experiencing homelessness, to emergency shelter programs, to our deep inventory of affordable...

Affordable Housing Solutions: Hope is on the Horizon

Affordable Housing, New Developments

So many hopeful things are on the horizon, it’s hard to know where to begin. But the building at 888 Garfield St. is an excellent starting place! Daylight pours through high windows on every side of this former American Steel manufacturing plant dating to 1957. Its...