People are invited to comment through Jan. 30 on the proposal to convert the McCormick & Baxter Superfund site, a former creosote wood treating facility in North Portland, into educational botanical gardens open to the public on the east bank of the Willamette River.
The nonprofit organization Portland Botanical Gardens, which hopes to purchase the 59-acre site, also proposes to develop a greenspace along the waterfront, extending the Willamette River greenway and water trail, and access to the river.
The former McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Co. property at 6900 N. Edgewater Ave. is adjacent to the University of Portland Franz River Campus and just south of the future Willamette Cove Natural Area…