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The City of Bend will be presenting on purposed changes to the city streets in the core of the City of Bend on Feb 13th from 5:30 to 6:30pm at Liberty Theatre, 829 NW Wall Street in Downtown Bend. The Downtown Bend Business Association, the River West Neighborhood Association and the Old Bend Neighborhood Association are co-sponsoring this Open House. These three associations have been working together closely for the past year on various issues that impacts the core of our city, and all three of their jurisdictions. In addition, representatives from each of these associations served on various committees, including but not limited to, the ODOT Parkway Plan Sounding Board, the Downtown Bend Parking Advisory Committee (DPAC), the Citywide Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC), and the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). In early January, Bend City Council agreed to send an approximately $180 million transportation bond measure to the May ballot. You can learn more about the City purposed projects here: https://www.bendoregon.gov/city-projects/safe-travel. To learn about how this will impact the Downtown Bend/City Core, please join us for this Open House:
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 Bend Electric Bikes (BEB) will move to a new location in Downtown Bend. The new shop,located at 869 NW Wall Street, suite 104, will help more people in Central Oregon enjoy the many benefits of biking, now in a more visible and central location. The new location was recently occupied by Crow’s Feet, which moved to Northwest Crossing after being Downtown for several years. Bend Electric Bikes will continue to serve the area as a neighborhood bike shop and introduce electric and cargo bikes for use in work and family life. There are already several Downtown business owners leading the revolution by using electric cargo bikes for business transport, eliminating the large footprint that cargo vans or other automobiles make in the area.
The owners and staff of BEB are excited to be part of the Brooks Alley neighborhood and the Downtown Bend business community. The staff will bring their friendly, welcoming culture and diverse community of riders to the new location. The shop offers high quality electric urban mobility for everyone and will make a, now bigger, positive impact on the area. Reasonably priced electric bike rentals will be offered to folks visiting Bend in order to provide a realistic alternative to traveling around our congested roads - a welcomed relief, as expressed by past and frequent visitors. Bend Electric Bikes will continue doing business at the existing location at 223 NW Hill Street in the Old Bend neighborhood until February 3. Opening day Downtown will be February 6. The community is invited to the baby GRAND OPENING and first First Friday Art Walk on February 7 5-9pm. Everyone is welcomed to meet the new neighbors, celebrate and join the BEB community. We shall party! Courtney Van Fossan, cultural agent of change, a former customer turned employee of BEB says, quote, “Several years ago, I was a customer who needed a supportive community and expert service on my electric cargo bike that carried me and my young children everywhere around town. We relied on our electric cargo bike and our bike shop to keep us moving. Having reliable, low cost, active transportation has made way for my family to enjoy some of our sweetest memories, moving about freely, getting to know our Bend community, up close. Electric, cargo and family biking was a quiet subculture and now, it’s mainstream, full of people we all know and growing quickly. Bend Electric Bikes is the bike shop I need and want in my community and we have a whole bunch of friends who feel the same way. I’m excited for the McCords to see their ‘little bike stand’ evolve into such an active and loved community kind of place.” About Bend Electric Bikes: Bend Electric Bikes, now in its 12th year of business, offers sales, service and rental of quality electric bikes, cargo bikes and and other electric urban mobility modes of transport in Central Oregon. Owners, Sterling and Kathy McCord, long time Bend residents, have a mission of getting more people on bikes and to share the many benefits of biking in our daily lives. BEB is a community hub for those seeking reliable electric bikes to use in everyday life and offers information, support and community activities to encourage ridership. The staff has long term personal experience and expertise in all aspects of biking, including many years of the most extensive professional technical knowledge and service of electric bikes Most importantly, the shop provides a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere for all people, especially those who are newly bike curious. Everyone benefits from riding bikes and BEB is committed to helping folks enjoy them in their everyday lives. |
